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古腾堡计划中的在线英语-英语词典
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Triangle
(n.)
A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground
and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing
corporal punishment, -- now disused.
Triangle
(n.)
A small constellation situated between Aries and
Andromeda.
Triangle
(n.)
A small constellation near the South Pole, containing
three bright stars.
Triangled
(a.)
Having three angles; triangular.
Triangular
(a.)
Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
Triangular
(a.)
Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles;
as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Triangulares
(n. pl.)
The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust.
under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.
Triangularity
(n.)
The quality or state of being triangular.
Triangularly
(adv.)
In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle.
Triangulate
(v. t.)
To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey
by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
Triangulate
(v. t.)
To make triangular, or three-cornered.
Triangulated
(imp. & p. p.)
of Triangulate
Triangulating
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Triangulate
Triangulation
(n.)
The series or network of triangles into which the
face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a
trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements
necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be
surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and
distances of the several points connected by them.
Triarchies
(pl. )
of Triarchy
Triarchy
(n.)
Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a
country under three rulers.
Triarian
(a.)
Occupying the third post or rank.
Triarticulate
(a.)
Having three joints.
Trias
(n.)
The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so
named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata,
which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and
Keuper.
Triassic
(a.)
Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.