triangular
Shaped like a triangle.
Adjective
- Shaped like a triangle.
- 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...
- 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.
Origin
From Middle English triangulare, trianguler, triangulere, from Old French triangulaire, triangulier and Latin triangulāris. By surface analysis, tri- + -angular.
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equitriangular nontriangular obtriangular ovotriangular quasitriangular subtriangular triangular colon triangular division triangular harp triangular hebesphenorotunda triangularine triangularity triangularization triangularize triangularly triangular matrix triangular number triangular prism triangular pyramid triangular trade triangulo-triangular unitriangular