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triangularity|traɪæŋgjuːˈlærɪtɪ| [f. as prec. + -ity; cf. med.L. triangulāritās (Duns Scotus, a 1308: prob. older).] The quality of being triangular; triangular form.
a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 14 Things are White by Whiteness, and Black by Blackness, Triangular by Triangularity, and Round by Rotundity. a1751Bolingbroke Ess., Hum. Knowl. v. Wks. 1754 III. 436 We say, for instance, not only that certain figures are triangular, but we discourse of triangularity. 1788T. Taylor Proclus' Comm. I. 48 Its triangularity would be essential, supposing every species of triangles but the isosceles extinct. 1805R. P. Knight On Taste i. iii. (ed. 2) 38 It partook..of the qualities of the immutable idea of triangularity. |