Triangle

Quick meaning: Triangle is a noun meaning (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

Meaning

(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.

More Meanings

1. (US, Canada) A set square.
2. (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
3. A love triangle.
4. (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
5. A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
6. (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
7. (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.

Example Sentences

I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles.

After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.

One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for triangle

Depending on context, synonyms include threeside, trigon, bluebottle, wye, trilateral.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trigon, trilateral, triangular, direction, tripartite, trio.

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