Triangulation

Quick meaning: Triangulation is a noun meaning (countable, surveying) The network of triangles so obtained, that are the basis of a chart or map.

Meaning

(countable, surveying) The network of triangles so obtained, that are the basis of a chart or map.

More Meanings

1. (countable, chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a triangular path to force the advance of a pawn.
2. (uncountable, navigation, seismology) A process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations.
3. (uncountable, politics) The practice of repositioning one's group or oneself on the political spectrum in an attempt to capture the centre.
4. (uncountable, surveying) A technique in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry; (countable) an instance of the use of this technique.
5. (countable, geometry) A subdivision of a planar object into triangles, and by extension the subdivision of a higher-dimension geometric object into simplices.
6. (uncountable, qualitative research) The use of three (or more) researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.

Example Sentences

A special advantage of radar is that it works during darkness and other periods of low visibility, which prevent visual triangulation and aircraft techniques for measuring nuclear clouds.

Regular triangulations are a class in-between lifting and lexicographic triangulations. Their main draw-back in the context of this paper is that regularity depends on the specific realization and not only on the oriented matroid.

The season of 1835–36 was employed in carrying on the triangulation; in which Colonel [George] Everest was much impeded by a long continuance of hazy and cloudy weather. It appears, however, that the principal triangulation was brought down to the line from Juktipura to Pagara; […]

Russia began under Catherine II, and has since constantly either taken up at different points or extended the triangulations successively made, with always more perfection of men of science. Now, these triangulations form a fully connected series from north of the arctic circle to south of Dorpat.

Word Forms

• triangulations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trace, trig, retriangulation, trigonometrics, phototriangulation, trilateration.

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