Crossword clues for scalene
scalene
- Having three unequal sides, of a triangle
- Triangle type
- Type of triangle
- Not isosceles or equilateral
- Neither isosceles nor equilateral
- Neither equilateral nor isosceles
- Like triangles with unequal sides
- Like a triangle with unequal sides
- Like a 3-4-5 right triangle
- Lacking a pair of congruent angles
- Having sides of different lengths, as triangles go
- Having three unequal sides, as a triangle
- Unequal on all three sides
- Like a 3-4-5 triangle
- Like some triangles
- Having no symmetry, in a way
- Having sides of different lengths, as a triangle
- Like a triangle with sides of different lengths
- Like the figure formed by the three circled letters in the upper left
- Oblique, as a cone
- Kind of triangle or muscle
- Get to the top on Tyneside?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scalene \Sca*lene"\, n. (Geom.) A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.
Scalene \Sca*lene"\, a. [L. scalenus, Gr. ?: cf. F. scal[`e]ne.]
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(Geom.)
Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.
Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.
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(Anat.)
Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
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Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.
Scalene muscles (Anat.), a group of muscles, usually three on each side in man, extending from the cervical vertebr[ae] to the first and second ribs.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having unequal sides," 1680s, from Late Latin scalenus, from Greek skalenos "uneven, unequal, odd (numbered)," as a noun, "triangle with unequal sides," from skallein "chop, hoe," from PIE *(s)kel- (1) "to cut" (see scale (n.1)).
Wiktionary
a. (context geometry of a triangle English) Having each of its three sides of different lengths. n. A scalene muscle.
WordNet
adj. of a triangle having three sides of different lengths
of or relating to any of the scalene muscles
Wikipedia
Scalene may refer to:
- A Brazilian rock band
- A scalene triangle, one in which all sides (and therefore angles) are different
- A scalene ellipsoid, one in which the lengths of all three semi-principal axes are different
- Scalene muscles of the neck
- Scalene tubercle, a slight ridge on the first rib prolonged internally into a tubercle
- Scalene, a 2011 independent film directed by Zack Parker
Usage examples of "scalene".
Not to mention the fact that Scalene could round up a few of his goblin buddies and reactivate the triad.
General Scalene puts on the skin and just walks out the front door, fooling all your scanners on the way.
First of all, Scalene escapes, and now his locater shows up and he wants to talk to Commander Root.
All the secondary entrances have long since subsided, so if Scalene is in there, he has to go through us to go home.
Root and Scalene, disintegrated into a cloud of shrapnel and dust, particles ricocheting off the tunnel walls.
First General Scalene, then Commander Root, and now Holly and Artemis Fowl.
Cuspids really were the result of some geo-physical event, it would be natural to expect to see them distributed at random: as a result the triangulation would be scalene or irregular, whereas those concerning the lunar objects lead to a basilary system, with co-ordinates x,y,x, to the right angle, six isosceles triangles and two axes consisting of three points each.
If all we have are sense-perceptions and images derived from sense, then we can never be aware of anything but a particular triangle, one that is either isosceles, scalene, or equilateral, one that has a certain size or area, one the lines of which are either black or of some other color, and so on.
It shifted its contours, shrank, and became a spiky sort of scalene pyramid, deep-purple in hue.
A sufficiently severe back and crosswise wrench of the head against the contraction of the anterior scalene usually tears or loosens the anterior tubercles of the fourth through the sixth vertebrae.
It shifted its contours, shrank, and became a spiky sort of scalene pyramid, deep purple in hue.
The heron was twice as tall as a man, and waded the water on scalene legs.
He juggled in his mind with the scalene triangle that could be drawn connecting Atropos with the two flagships.