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adjective

Triangular adj.

Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.

(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 (Zool.), 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.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Triangular" Quotes from Famous Books

... in and out were the fed and the unfed guests of the house. It was supper time; we also were hungry. We peered into the dining room: three tables full of men; a huge pile of beds on the floor, covered with hats and coats; a singular wall, made entirely of doors propped upright; a triangular space walled off by sailcloth,—this is what we saw. We stood outside, waiting among the scaffolding and benches. A black man was lighting the candles in a candelabrum made of two narrow bars of wood nailed across each other at right angles, and perforated with ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... squirrel is a rodent that tastes as a rat smells. Beside the ocean a flock of sandpipers is needed to complete the beautiful picture; but on the table a sandpiper is beneath contempt. A live deer trotting over a green meadow, waving a triangular white flag, is a sight to thrill any human ganglion; but a deer lying dead,—unless it has an exceptionally fine head,—is ...

— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday

... of his heavy-backed sheath-knife, Grief clipped a triangular piece of shell from the end of a husked drinking-cocoa-nut. The thin, cool liquid, slightly milky and effervescent, bubbled to the brim. With a bow, Pankburn took the natural cup, threw his head back, and ...

— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London

... named because it resembled the Greek capital letter Delta, [Greek: D], corresponding to the English D; hence a triangular-shaped piece of land. ...

— The Two Great Retreats of History • George Grote

... contained between twenty and thirty people, who found seats for the most part upon the floor, occupying the mattresses, and hunching themselves together into triangular shapes. They were all young and some of them seemed to make a protest by their hair and dress, and something somber and truculent in the expression of their faces, against the more normal type, who would have passed unnoticed in an omnibus ...

— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf

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