triangular

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
15
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lə/(UK)
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/tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lə/(UK) · /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjʊ.lə/(UK) · /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/(US) · /tɹaɪˈaɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lɚ/(US)

Definition of triangular

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Shaped like a triangle.
    “A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].”
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adj

  1. Shaped like a triangle.
    “A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].”
  2. Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
  3. Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
  4. Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.

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Etymology

From Middle English triangulare, trianguler, triangulere, from Old French triangulaire, triangulier and Latin triangulāris. By surface analysis, tri- + -angular.

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