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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of triangulate English)
Usage examples of "triangulating".
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.
Even as his tentacles extended, their nerves picking up and triangulating on the beam, another quaver of uneasiness uncoiled in him.
A technique for locating distant radio transmitters by triangulating from several points.
Bobby Shaftoe stands at attention on the opposite flank, he and the skeleton sort of triangulating on the doctor and watching him scrawl out the date and time of Enoch Root's demise.
Led by a hydrologist named Pierre Bouguer and a soldier-mathematician named Charles Marie de La Condamine, it was a party of scientists and adventurers who traveled to Peru with the purpose of triangulating distances through the Andes.
After two years of trundling and triangulating his way across France, in 1669 he announced a more accurate measure of 110.