Crossword clues for triangular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compasses \Com"pass*es\, n., pl. An instrument for describing circles, measuring figures, etc., consisting of two, or (rarely) more, pointed branches, or legs, usually joined at the top by a rivet on which they move.
Note: The compasses for drawing circles have adjustable pen points, pencil points, etc.; those used for measuring without adjustable points are generally called dividers. See Dividers.
Bow compasses. See Bow-compass.
Caliber compasses, Caliper compasses. See Calipers.
Proportional, Triangular, etc., compasses. See under Proportional, etc.
Triangular \Tri*an"gu*lar\, a. [L. triangularis: cf. F. triangulaire.]
Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
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(Bot.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time.
Triangular crab (Zo["o]l.), any maioid crab; -- so called because the carapace is usually triangular.
Triangular numbers (Math.), the series of numbers formed by the successive sums of the terms of an arithmetical progression, of which the first term and the common difference are 1. See Figurate numbers, under Figurate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Late Latin triangularis "triangular, pertaining to a triangle," from Latin triangulus "with three corners" (the usual adjective in classical Latin), as a noun, "a triangle;" see triangle. Related: Triangularly.\nIn the huts of witches all the instruments and implements are triangular. ["Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens"]
Wiktionary
a. Shaped like a triangle.
WordNet
adj. having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle; "a triangular figure"; "a triangular pyrimid has a triangle for a base"
involving three parties or elements; "the triangular mother-father-child relationship"; "a trilateral agreement"; "a tripartite treaty"; "a tripartite division"; "a three-way playoff" [syn: trilateral, tripartite, three-party, three-way]
having three sides; "a trilateral figure" [syn: trilateral, three-sided]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "triangular".
Spirit, called Alkahest, has in itself the generative virtue of producing the triangular Cubical Stone, and contains in itself all the virtues to render men happy in this world and in that to come.
Where Anele pointed, in a notch between slick stones at the lapping edge of the water, lay a roughly triangular patch of fine sand.
When sound is not being produced, the glottis is open and has a triangular form, due to the spreading apart of the arytenoid cartilages and the attached cords.
In each particular human being we must admit the existence of the authentic Intellective Act and of the authentically knowable object--though not as wholly merged into our being, since we are not these in the absolute and not exclusively these--and hence our longing for absolute things: it is the expression of our intellective activities: if we sometimes care for the partial, that affection is not direct but accidental, like our knowledge that a given triangular figure is made up of two right angles because the absolute triangle is so.
Before he could devise a new plan for escape, Esmerelda grabbed the bandanna by its triangular fold and snatched it down.
In her time as a scholar, which was as long as the codices had been kept on the Isle of Senana, she had come across a variety of materials, from triangular oak rods to the most delicate rice parchment.
According to Moir, the triangular pieces of fossilized whale bone discovered in the strata below the Coralline Crag might have once been used as spear points.
The sky was full of dodecahedral frameworks, triangular faces glimmering, drifting like angular soap bubbles.
Above this to the fundus or base is a triangular and flat space called the cavity.
She held a knife up near the unshielded gaslight, a huge, triangular bladed knife that flashed like a sheet of silver.
For a building that looks like simplicity itself on the outside--seven triangular blocks arranged in a star shape around a heptagonal inner courtyard--the Pharc is a very confusing place once you get indoors.
All three men saw it at once and for the moment could only stare at the ivory-hued jawless irregular sphere with its great black orbits and triangular nasal opening.
The only type of sail seen on Arab ships, the lateen sail is essentially triangular, laced to a forward-leaning mast and a long yard.
It was already hull-up, and even at a distance he could see that it was enormous, with three tall masts each carrying three square sails and a fourth mast with a single triangular lateen sail perched aft.
There was a part of the posterior region of the right superior maxilla, but the left was entirely gone--in fact, the man presented an enormous triangular opening in the center of the face, as shown by the accompanying illustration.