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triangle

/trahy-ang-guhl/US // ˈtraɪˌæŋ gəl //UK // (ˈtraɪˌæŋɡəl) //

三角形,三角,三角铁,三角形的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a closed plane figure having three sides and three angles.
    • : a flat triangular piece, usually of plastic, with straight edges, used in connection with a T square for drawing perpendicular lines, geometric figures, etc.
    • : any three-cornered or three-sided figure, object, or piece: a triangle of land.
    • : a musical percussion instrument that consists of a steel triangle, open at one corner, that is struck with a steel rod.
    • : a group of three; triad.
    • : a situation involving three persons, especially one in which two of them are in love with the third.
    • : Astronomy. the constellation Triangulum.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlove affair

Examples

  • For example, you can change drawing A into drawing B by flipping the triangle made by nodes 1, 2 and 3 over the edge connecting nodes 2 and 3.

  • A triangle with sides of all different lengths is “scalene,” or “unequal.”

  • There is the classic triangle, a sturdy square, and you may even see some rectangular shapes if you are dealing with a nice flatbread.

  • For the four Platonic solids built out of squares or equilateral triangles — the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron — mathematicians recently figured out that the answer is no.

  • Like the triangle and the quadrilateral, the N-gon with the maximum area was a regular N-gon, with equal side lengths and angles.

  • This Texas Triangle now has the same population as the entire State of Florida.

  • The scorned party in a love-triangle, he blew his head off while serving overnight tower duty in 2007.

  • For her first film, she played a woman caught in a love triangle between a nightclub owner and a country boy.

  • We kept joking about the show evolving and blossoming from this love triangle into this five-pointed star.

  • In reading about ASHA, its current location is hard to overlook—Research Triangle, North Carolina.

  • On the other hand, the arrows along the sides of the triangle represent actual circulation.

  • He was a narrow-headed man with frail-looking sloped shoulders and a thin triangle of face.

  • There are sixty thousand acres of mighty good spruce in that triangle between us, and it's as good as ours.

  • (e) No part of the counter shall intersect a triangle or the produced perpendicular thereof shown on p. 186.

  • A third game was called trign, and was played by three persons, stationed at the angles of an equilateral triangle.