triangular
Americanadjective
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Also: trigonal. of, shaped like, or relating to a triangle; having three corners or sides
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of or involving three participants, pieces, or units
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maths having a base shaped like a triangle
Other Word Forms
- subtriangular adjective
- subtriangularity noun
- triangularity noun
- triangularly adverb
Etymology
Origin of triangular
1535–45; < Latin triangulāris, equivalent to triangul ( um ) triangle + -āris -ar 1
Example Sentences
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A pile of phone and computer chargers crowds a coffee table along with a familiar triangular box.
From Literature
He wandered over to his sandbox, sat down on the triangular corner seat, and reached for a big spoon that was partly buried in the sand and dirt.
From Literature
It’s a triangular pebble with smoothed edges that I plucked from a pile of gravel in northern Minnesota.
The FAA also cordoned off a triangular zone south of Key West.
From Salon
"During these drainages, extensive triangular fracture fields with cracks in the ice formed from 2019 onwards, which are shaped differently from all lake drainages I have seen so far," Humbert said.
From Science Daily
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