triangular
triangular is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(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 (Zoöl.), 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- cube
- divide
- fold
- into
- part
- place
- tern
- ternary
- the
- third
- thirdly
- three
- threefold
- thrice
- treble
- trebleness
- trebly
- trichotomous
- trichotomy
- tricuspid
- tridentate
- tridentiferous
- trifid
- trifoliate
- trifurcate
- trigonal
- trigrammatic
- trigrammic
- trinal
- trine
- tripartite
- tripartition
- tripetalous
- triple
- triplicate
- triplication
- triplicity
- triquetral
- triquetrous
- trisect
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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