Crossword clues for triangulate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triangulate \Tri*an"gu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Triangulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Triangulating.]
To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
To make triangular, or three-cornered.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1833, originally in surveying, from Latin triangulum "a triangle" (see triangle) + -ate (2). Related: Triangulated; triangulating. Figurative use by 1860.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 to locate by means of triangulation 2 to pit two others against each other in order to achieve a desired outcome or to gain an advantage; to "play both ends against the middle"
WordNet
adj. composed of or marked with triangles
v. divide into triangles or give a triangular form to; "triangulate the piece of cardboard"
measure by using trigonometry; "triangulate the angle"
survey by triangulation; "The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot"
Usage examples of "triangulate".
No addressee involved, no chance to triangulate sources for a fix of any kind.
A half-second burst transmission at best No addressee involved, no chance to triangulate sources for a fix of any kind.
From the celestial map and my understanding of their lunar calendar, I discovered a reference to a specific location, triangulated by the position of the moon, the sun, and the north star in the text.
Nonetheless the captain had counted on more time before the hunters triangulated on the Komsomolets Thilsiskiy.
The warrants triangulated, using a sender at Tobruk and another at the Gambia, and a flight of Lancaster bombers had been sent to investigate a possible U-boat nest.
The instruments on their backs extended and swiveled sensors, peered and listened through the whole spectrum, did not intrude with radar or sonar but surveyed and triangulated, micrometrically precise, a cataract of data pouring into their recorders.
There, technicians would triangulate the exact positions of the ships and subs and pass the information on to analysts in NSA.
What if they detected Edwards's satellite radio and began to triangulate on it?
Then, as they were approaching the very end of the buttress, the promontory standing out in a gap of air beyond all telling, under the bejeweled jade disk and the brilliant diamond chip beyond it, the whole solar system suddenly triangulated by these celestial objects, the true size of things revealed-they saw moving stars overhead.
Leaning cautiously over the side, Elrosa saw it wriggle out from under the sand, all three of its protruding, bulbous eyes triangulating on him, their intended prey.
They crossed a cinderland of caked slurry and volcanic ash imponderable as the burnedout floor of hell and they climbed up through a low range of barren granite hills to a stark promontory where the judge, triangulating from known points of landscape, reckoned anew their course.
He watched his screen as it triangulated and gave him a logical presumption.
Until that happens the only danger will be if the Malacostracans triangulate on our signal and it leads them to us.
The metes and bounds of the McLain farm as recorded in the local county courthouse check precisely with the triangulated latitude and longitude of this object on this photograph.
The three trucks were out roaming the world, triangulating and triangulating and triangulating, and every damn time the three lines crossed at the exact same spot on the map.