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triangulated, ppl. a. and a.|traɪˈæŋgjʊleɪtɪd|
[f. as prec. adj. or vb. + -ed.]
1. a. = triangulate a. 1. b. Formed into a triangle. c. Converted or divided into triangles; composed of triangles.
1610Hopton Baculum Geodæt. ii. i. 18 If right lined, whether a Tryangle or Tryangulated? 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 286 The triangulated Ostracion. 1897Westm. Gaz. 6 Dec. 9/1 A [bicycle] frame..worthy of attention is that known as the ‘triangulated’, designed by Mr. C. W. Brown for ladies' machines.
2. Measured or mapped out by means of triangles, as in surveying. (In quot. 1894 fig.)
1894Thinker VI. 344 There may be a vast terra incognita lying back of the triangulated regions of consciousness. 1969G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs ii. 40 From about 1750 onwards a few of the better cartographers had begun to accept the need, for accuracy's sake, of providing a full triangulated framework for their county maps. |