triangular
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English triangulare, trianguler, triangulere, from Old French triangulaire, triangulier and Latin triangulāris.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lə/, /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjʊ.lə/
- (US) IPA(key): /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/, /tɹaɪˈaɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Adjective[edit]
triangular (comparative more triangular, superlative most triangular)
- Shaped like a triangle.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, OCLC 483591931, page 15:
- A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].
- Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
- Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
- Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.
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Translations[edit]
shaped like a triangle
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of or pertaining to triangles
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having a triangle as a base
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having three elements or parties
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Catalan[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
triangular (masculine and feminine plural triangulars)
Verb[edit]
triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, past participle triangulat)
- to triangulate
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of triangular (first conjugation)
Galician[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
triangular m or f (plural triangulares)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “triangular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin triangulāris.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective:
Noun:
- Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar
Adjective[edit]
triangular m or f (plural triangulares, comparable)
Verb[edit]
triangular (first-person singular present indicative triangulo, past participle triangulado)
- to triangulate
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb triangular
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
triangular (plural triangulares)
Verb[edit]
triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, first-person singular preterite triangulé, past participle triangulado)
- to triangulate
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of triangular (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Further reading[edit]
- “triangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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