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单词 triangular
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Definition of triangular in English:

triangular

adjective trʌɪˈaŋɡjʊlətraɪˈæŋɡjələr
  • 1Shaped like a triangle; having three sides and three corners.

    dainty triangular sandwiches
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was a flying triangular shaped thing with big red lights on the three corners that had a haze like glow to them.
    • It is a triangular shaped cloth of saffron colour (some earlier sources mention blue colour).
    • The sagacious Romans saw that in order to control the line of the Danube and the east coast of Italy it was necessary to absorb the triangular shaped country of the Illyrians.
    • On either side of the headband, just behind her ears are triangular shaped ornaments of sorts.
    • Bat rays have a flattened, triangular shaped body that is wider than long.
    • Two triangular shaped plastic latches extrude from the side.
    • Products with a square, rectangular, triangular, or polygonal cross-section can have corners rounded along their whole length.
    • During the year, cigar, rectangular, and triangular shaped objects in the sky were reported from various locations.
    • The decrescent side is flat and triangular in shape and it does not expand outwardly as much as the other three sides.
    • The style may be named after the farm animal, but that doesn't mean you should also don a triangular shaped goatee on your chin - a definite fashion faux pas.
    • It had a smooth carapace, like a beetle, and a triangular shaped head with two huge bug eyes atop each corner.
    • The garage is 33 feet by 33 feet so it features four equally steep, equally triangular sides meeting in a perfect central peak 33 feet above the ground.
    • With triangular occluders, the sides of the rotating shape seem to cave in.
    • The glass pavilion, designed by Dirk van Pastel, is in the western corner of a triangular site, surrounded by the woods and fields of Burgundy.
    • I have recently in the last year to year and a half noticed I have on my right shin bone, a perfect triangular shaped scar.
    • One was wearing all red and had a white, circular shaped hat on, while the other was wearing all yellow and had a yellow, triangular shaped hat on.
    • Heterozygotes have a clearly smaller eye with a distinctive triangular shaped pupil.
    • On one corner of the triangular table a small grouping of food platters had been placed, and the guests headed to them eagerly.
    • The florets touched each other at their tips, creating flattened sides and triangular openings between them.
    • The decrescent side is a triangular surface, similar to a pyramidal facet.
    Synonyms
    three-sided, three-cornered, triangle-shaped
    technical trilateral
    rare trigonal, trigonous, trigonic
    1. 1.1 Involving three people or parties.
      a triangular cricket competition
      Example sentencesExamples
      • South Africa drew first blood in this summer's Standard Bank triangular cricket series when they beat Zimbabwe by six wickets at the Wanderers last night.
      • Their relationship parallels any triangular situation, for even in denial their bond is inexplicable.
      • And what will private energy generators make of this proposed triangular relationship between two state firms and one government department?
      • Make a difference in the triangular relationship.
      • Likewise, a vernacular translation would normally be produced in a triangular relationship with at least two other versions.
      • Many of the relationships were distinctly triangular.
      • In fact, Beijing has long been the most important player in the India-Pakistan-China triangular relationship.
      • For one, slave hiring provided flexibility within the slave system that yielded benefits for all parties involved in the triangular relationship.
      • Now they find themselves thrust yet again into an intense triangular relationship: Jimmy the avenger, Sean the truth-seeker and Dave the unfortunate.
      • Without raising a sweat, South Africa crushed Kenya by seven wickets at Willowmoore Park here yesterday in the second one-day triangular cricket international.
      • During Vajpayee's visit, China raised the prospect of a triangular relationship between Russia, China and India.
      • South Africa meet New Zealand in the last league match of the Singapore Challenge 2000 triangular cricket series today, which will determine who gets to play in the final.
      • Resonant triangular relationships evolve between you and your special friend and those below that see you.
      • The Samoans booked their place with a 31-13 win over Tonga in Apia to move to the top of the triangular Oceania qualifying competition.
      • They believe in the mystery of his ways, as well as the absolutely necessary triangular relationship of God-universe-science.
      • Now companies have made it a triangular relationship.
      • Stone Reader explores the triangular relationship between a book, its reader, and the other people who have shared the experience of reading it.
      • Taiwan could regain some momentum in the Taipei-Tokyo-Beijing triangular relationship by forming a partnership with Japan to contain China's ambitions in the region.
      • Their triangular relationship, revealed through charming bilingual interplay, was the heart of this film.
      • Development of personal triangular relationships can cause some anxiety.
    2. 1.2 (of a pyramid) having a three-sided base.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alternatively, the door jam looks very similar to any regular triangular door jam and is put very close to the closed door.
      • Instead of collapsing on top of them, the walls had fallen together in a triangular structure and were supporting several large boulders that had been the roof of the cave.
      • Onto this stage is rolled a triangular cage for the important prison scenes, the widely spaced bars forming a jungle gym for the captive Palamon.
      • Built by the widow of Sir William James in 1784, the triangular tower is a memorial to her husband, who fought a battle against pirates in 1755 when he captured Severndroog in India.
      • One of the girls had been to New York before, and fairly expertly navigated us to a tiny gay piano bar set in a tiny triangular building created by the intersection of gridlines.
      • The bonds between the central nitrogen and the three surrounding hydrogen atoms are pointed at the corners of the base of a triangular pyramid.
      • It is a 2.5 m triangular pyramid with an inscription written in Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish which reads, ‘We stand united on the path to a united Europe’.

Derivatives

  • triangularity

  • noun trʌɪaŋɡjʊˈlarɪtitraɪˌæŋɡjəˈlɛrədi
    • Such drop in electron thermal diffusivity at the positive shear region was also observed in the high beta-p mode plasmas at high triangularity.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That is to say - to adopt for a moment a Platonic sounding idiom - goodness is partially definitive of Godhood, as youngness is partially definitive of puppyhood and as three-sidedness is partially definitive of triangularity.
      • This paper describes and tests several algorithms for calculating ellipticity, rectangularity, and triangularity shape descriptors.
      • One then could know a priori through the mentally instantiated property the features of triangles, which instantiate triangularity.
  • triangularly

  • adverb
    • Soon afterwards, the bizarre, triangularly coiled, inflated Parawocklumeria and Wocklumeria appeared, representing the last burst of clymeniid diversification.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Suddenly he saw a triangularly folded note land on his desk and he looked around to see who it was from and saw Patricia smiling at him.
      • A russet mist rushed from the girl's head and into a new triangularly shaped stone.
      • Here, he composes his shots triangularly, placing the three characters in varying positions according to their relationships with each other.
      • The tall light fixtures at Elian Gonzalez Square, which define the two long sides of the triangularly shaped plaza, are capped with a design that combines a crocodile tail and a leaf from the red palm, both Cuban national symbols.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin triangularis, from Latin triangulum (see triangle).

Rhymes

angular, quadrangular, rectangular
 
 

Definition of triangular in US English:

triangular

adjectivetrīˈaNGɡyələrtraɪˈæŋɡjələr
  • 1Shaped like a triangle; having three sides and three corners.

    dainty triangular sandwiches
    Example sentencesExamples
    • On either side of the headband, just behind her ears are triangular shaped ornaments of sorts.
    • The garage is 33 feet by 33 feet so it features four equally steep, equally triangular sides meeting in a perfect central peak 33 feet above the ground.
    • The sagacious Romans saw that in order to control the line of the Danube and the east coast of Italy it was necessary to absorb the triangular shaped country of the Illyrians.
    • Bat rays have a flattened, triangular shaped body that is wider than long.
    • During the year, cigar, rectangular, and triangular shaped objects in the sky were reported from various locations.
    • The decrescent side is flat and triangular in shape and it does not expand outwardly as much as the other three sides.
    • The decrescent side is a triangular surface, similar to a pyramidal facet.
    • Two triangular shaped plastic latches extrude from the side.
    • It was a flying triangular shaped thing with big red lights on the three corners that had a haze like glow to them.
    • I have recently in the last year to year and a half noticed I have on my right shin bone, a perfect triangular shaped scar.
    • The florets touched each other at their tips, creating flattened sides and triangular openings between them.
    • On one corner of the triangular table a small grouping of food platters had been placed, and the guests headed to them eagerly.
    • With triangular occluders, the sides of the rotating shape seem to cave in.
    • One was wearing all red and had a white, circular shaped hat on, while the other was wearing all yellow and had a yellow, triangular shaped hat on.
    • The glass pavilion, designed by Dirk van Pastel, is in the western corner of a triangular site, surrounded by the woods and fields of Burgundy.
    • The style may be named after the farm animal, but that doesn't mean you should also don a triangular shaped goatee on your chin - a definite fashion faux pas.
    • Products with a square, rectangular, triangular, or polygonal cross-section can have corners rounded along their whole length.
    • It had a smooth carapace, like a beetle, and a triangular shaped head with two huge bug eyes atop each corner.
    • Heterozygotes have a clearly smaller eye with a distinctive triangular shaped pupil.
    • It is a triangular shaped cloth of saffron colour (some earlier sources mention blue colour).
    Synonyms
    three-sided, three-cornered, triangle-shaped
    1. 1.1 Involving three people or parties.
      a triangular relationship
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Their relationship parallels any triangular situation, for even in denial their bond is inexplicable.
      • Likewise, a vernacular translation would normally be produced in a triangular relationship with at least two other versions.
      • In fact, Beijing has long been the most important player in the India-Pakistan-China triangular relationship.
      • For one, slave hiring provided flexibility within the slave system that yielded benefits for all parties involved in the triangular relationship.
      • And what will private energy generators make of this proposed triangular relationship between two state firms and one government department?
      • Without raising a sweat, South Africa crushed Kenya by seven wickets at Willowmoore Park here yesterday in the second one-day triangular cricket international.
      • Resonant triangular relationships evolve between you and your special friend and those below that see you.
      • Make a difference in the triangular relationship.
      • Many of the relationships were distinctly triangular.
      • Taiwan could regain some momentum in the Taipei-Tokyo-Beijing triangular relationship by forming a partnership with Japan to contain China's ambitions in the region.
      • Stone Reader explores the triangular relationship between a book, its reader, and the other people who have shared the experience of reading it.
      • Their triangular relationship, revealed through charming bilingual interplay, was the heart of this film.
      • Now they find themselves thrust yet again into an intense triangular relationship: Jimmy the avenger, Sean the truth-seeker and Dave the unfortunate.
      • During Vajpayee's visit, China raised the prospect of a triangular relationship between Russia, China and India.
      • South Africa drew first blood in this summer's Standard Bank triangular cricket series when they beat Zimbabwe by six wickets at the Wanderers last night.
      • Development of personal triangular relationships can cause some anxiety.
      • The Samoans booked their place with a 31-13 win over Tonga in Apia to move to the top of the triangular Oceania qualifying competition.
      • Now companies have made it a triangular relationship.
      • South Africa meet New Zealand in the last league match of the Singapore Challenge 2000 triangular cricket series today, which will determine who gets to play in the final.
      • They believe in the mystery of his ways, as well as the absolutely necessary triangular relationship of God-universe-science.
    2. 1.2 (of a pyramid) having a three-sided base.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead of collapsing on top of them, the walls had fallen together in a triangular structure and were supporting several large boulders that had been the roof of the cave.
      • Alternatively, the door jam looks very similar to any regular triangular door jam and is put very close to the closed door.
      • It is a 2.5 m triangular pyramid with an inscription written in Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish which reads, ‘We stand united on the path to a united Europe’.
      • One of the girls had been to New York before, and fairly expertly navigated us to a tiny gay piano bar set in a tiny triangular building created by the intersection of gridlines.
      • The bonds between the central nitrogen and the three surrounding hydrogen atoms are pointed at the corners of the base of a triangular pyramid.
      • Onto this stage is rolled a triangular cage for the important prison scenes, the widely spaced bars forming a jungle gym for the captive Palamon.
      • Built by the widow of Sir William James in 1784, the triangular tower is a memorial to her husband, who fought a battle against pirates in 1755 when he captured Severndroog in India.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from late Latin triangularis, from Latin triangulum (see triangle).

 
 
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