triangle

noun

1. A polygon with three sides and three angles.

   “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.”

2. (Canada, US)A set square.
3. 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.
4. A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
5. A love triangle.

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

6. The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
7. A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
8. (historical, plural-normally)A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.

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

   “But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;”

9. Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
10. A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.

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

name

1. A place in the United States:

   “I moved to the Triangle two years ago.”

   “Many Triangle residents enjoy iced tea.”

2. A place in the United States:
3. A place in the United States:
4. A community in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, seemingly in Labrador.
5. A place in England:
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7. A place in England:
8. A small town in Masvingo province, Zimbabwe.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of Bermuda Triangle.