right triangle

English

A right triangle.

Noun

right triangle (plural right triangles)

1. (geometry) A triangle having a right angle as one of its interior angles.

Synonyms

• right-angled triangle (see usage note below)

Meronyms

• cathetus
• hypotenuse

Usage notes

Right triangle is probably the more common term in the US, while right-angled triangle is probably the more common term in the UK,

Translations

a triangle having a right angle as one of its interior angles

• Finnish: suorakulmainen kolmio (fi)
• French: triangle rectangle (fr) m
• German: rechtwinkliges Dreieck n
• Greek: ‎ορθογώνιο τρίγωνο (orthogónio trígono) n 
• Hungarian: derékszögű háromszög (hu)
• Italian: triangolo rettangolo (it) m
• Japanese: 直角三角形 (chokkaku sankakukei)
• Macedonian: правоаголен триаголник (mk) (pravoágolen triágolnik) m
• Persian: مثلث قائم الزاویه

• Polish: trójkąt prostokątny m
• Portuguese: triângulo reto
• Romanian: triunghi dreptunghic (ro)
• Russian: прямоугольный треугольник (ru) (prjamougól’nyj treugól’nik) m
• Serbo-Croatian: pravokutni trokut (sh) m
• Slovak: pravouhlý trojuholník
• Spanish: triángulo rectángulo (es) m
• Swedish: rät triangel (sv) c , rätvinklig triangel (sv) c
• Turkish: dik üçgen (tr) c