triangulation
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Etymology[edit]

People determining the width of a river by triangulation (sense 1)[1]
triangulate + -ion.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /tɹʌɪaŋɡjʊˈleɪʃn̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌtɹaɪˌæŋɡjəˈleɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lat‧ion
Noun[edit]
triangulation (countable and uncountable, plural triangulations)
- (uncountable, surveying) A technique in which distances and directions are estimated from an accurately measured baseline and the principles of trigonometry.
- (countable, surveying) The network of triangles so obtained, that are the basis of a chart or map.
- (countable, chess) A delaying move in which the king moves in a triangular path to force the advance of a pawn.
- (uncountable, navigation, seismology) A process by which an unknown location is found using three known distances from known locations.
- (uncountable, politics) The practice of repositioning one's group or oneself on the political spectrum in an attempt to capture the centre.
- (uncountable, qualitative research) The use of three (or more) researchers to interview the same people or to evaluate the same evidence to reduce the impact of individual bias.
- 2003 December 1, Nahid Golafshani, “Understanding Reliability and Validity in Qualitative Research”, in The Qualitative Report[1], volume 8, number 4, page 603:
- Even though triangulation is used in quantitative paradigm for confirmation and generalization of a research, Barbour (1998) does not disregard the notion of triangulation in qualitative paradigm and she states the need to define triangulation from a qualitative research's perspective in each paradigm. For example, in using triangulation of several data sources in quantitative research, any exception may lead to a disconfirmation of the hypothesis where exceptions in qualitative research are dealt to modify the theories and are fruitful.
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Terms derived from triangulation
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Terms related to triangulation
Translations[edit]
surveying technique
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References[edit]
- ^ An engraving from a 16th-century treatise by Levinus Hulsius (1546–1606).
Further reading[edit]
triangulation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
triangulation (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia