set square

English

a set square

Pronunciation

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Noun

set square (plural set squares)

1. (UK) A flat triangular piece of plastic or other material, having corners of precise angles, used in technical drawing
   • 2008 January, Michel Serfati, “A Note on the Geometry and Descartes's Mathematical Work”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 55, number 1, pages 50–51:

     Descartes extended this classification by introducing his set-square compass. This is mechanism of sliding set squares that "push" each other... .

2. A right angle tool used to determine if two surfaces join at a 90-degree angle, composed of two arms, usually made from metal.

   Coordinate terms: miter square, try-miter square

Synonyms

• (flat triangular piece of plastic): triangle

Hyponyms

• try square, carpenter's square, framing square, steel square

Translations

flat triangular piece of plastic or other material used in technical drawing

• Arabic: كُوس رَسْم m (kūs rasm)
• Bulgarian: триъ́гълник (bg) m (triǎ́gǎlnik)
• Catalan: escaire (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三角板 (zh) (sānjiǎobǎn)

• Czech: nastavit čtverec
• Dutch: geodriehoek (nl) m
• Finnish: kolmioviivain
• French: demi-carré m, équerre (fr) f
• Galician: escuadro (gl) m
• German: Geodreieck (de) n, Geometrie-Dreieck n
• Greek: γνώμονας (el) (gnómonas)
• Hindi: गुनिया (hi) (guniyā)
• Japanese: 三角定規 (ja) (sankaku jōgi)
• Māori: tāhāngai
• Norman: êtchèrre f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vinkelhake m

  Nynorsk: vinkelhake m

• Occitan: escaire (oc) m
• Persian: گونیا (fa) (gunyâ)
• Polish: ekierka (pl) f
• Portuguese: esquadro (pt) m
• Russian: геодези́ческий транспорти́р m (geodezíčeskij transportír)
• Spanish: cartabón (es) m, escuadra (es) f
• Tagalog: tatsihang galod
• Vietnamese: ê-ke

right angle tool

• Catalan: escaire (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直角尺 (zh) (zhíjiǎochǐ), 矩尺 (zh) (jǔchǐ)

• Esperanto: angulilo
• Finnish: suorakulma (fi)
• Korean: 삼각자 (samgakja)
• Māori: tāhāngai
• Polish: ekierka (pl) f
• Russian: науго́льник (ru) m (naugólʹnik)

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