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noun
- something approximating the shape of a triangle
- any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- a three-sided polygon
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A love triangle.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
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verb
adj
- (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- (mathematics) Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.
- (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- flowing together
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- (geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
- (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
- (electricity) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”).
- (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- Alternative spelling of leg..
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- (gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
- (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- (figurative) Something that supports.
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
- (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a part of a forked or branching shape
adj
verb
noun
- ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
- (informal, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of coz, cousin.
- Alternative form of coss, a traditional Nepali unit of distance.
- (chiefly UK) Synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce.
- plural of co
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det
noun
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- a light brown the color of topaz
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- A light, brown-like colour.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
adj
verb
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
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noun
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
- (mathematics) A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
- A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
- (art) A visual interaction between two or more lines or edges that creates a perceived relationship between them, often in a way that the artist did not intend.
- (music) A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.
- (differential geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
adj
noun
- ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- (colloquial, especially politics) Clipping of secretary.
- (colloquial) Clipping of second (“short indeterminate period of time”).
- (informal) Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
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adj
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- (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
- (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
adj
- (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
noun
- an object shaped like an equilateral triangle
- the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
- a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
- (medicine) Ellipsis of delta variant (variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus).
- (US military, US Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.
- A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
- (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
- (physics) one of four baryons consisting of up and down quarks with a combined spin of 3/2: Δ⁺⁺ (uuu), Δ⁺ (uud), Δ⁰ (udd), or Δ⁻ (ddd)
- (chemistry) A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- (electricity, often attributive) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.
- The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
- (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
- (astronomy) a star that is usually the fourth brightest of a constellation.
- (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
- (finance) The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
- A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
verb
adj
- (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- High or shrill.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- (orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.
- (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
- Brief, quick, short.
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Urgent.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- of critical importance and consequence
- of an angle; less than 90 degrees
- extremely sharp or severe
- having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- ending in a sharp point
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verb
noun
- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
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- (quilting) Initialism of half-rectangle triangle.
- Initialism of habit reversal training.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of hostage rescue team.
- (linguistics) Initialism of high rising terminal, a type of speech that rises in pitch at the end (sounding like a question).
- (medicine) Initialism of hormone replacement therapy.
- hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
noun
- (geometry) The line perpendicularly connecting a figure’s vertex, especially a triangle’s apex, to the side opposite to the vertex.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
- (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Height.
- Highest point or degree.
- The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
- (geometry) The length of such a line; the distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the side opposite to the vertex.
- Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
- A vertical distance.
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
noun
- (geometry) A polyiamond consisting of two triangles.
- (baseball) The infield of a baseball field.
- (geometry) A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- (card games) A card of the diamonds suit.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A town square.
- A very pale blue color.
- Something that resembles a diamond.
- A diamond ring.
- (baseball) The entire field of play used in the game.
- A gemstone made from this mineral.
- (heraldry) Sable, when blazoning by precious stones.
- (uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
- the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
- a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
- a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
- a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- the baseball playing field
- very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
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- (geometry, computer graphics) To divide into triangles.
- divide into triangles or give a triangular form to
- (politics) To pit two others against each other in order to achieve a desired outcome or to gain an advantage; to "play both sides against the middle".
- To locate by means of triangulation.
- survey by triangulation
- measure by using trigonometry
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- (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
- (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
- A person or a thing that splits.
- (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
noun
- The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
- A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.
- a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
noun
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (neuroanatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
- (entomology) A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
- (architecture) One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
noun
- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (US, regional, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
verb
- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- put, fix, force, or implant
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
noun
- A figure formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting regularly so as to form a six-pointed star.
- (Wicca) A pentagram, or a disk with a pentagram on it, especially one that is used for magical or mystical purposes.
- A flat talisman, almost always star-shaped, made of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation.
- (Wicca) A circumscribed pentagram.
- a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon
noun
- (geometry) Initialism of angle-angle-side triangular congruency.
- Initialism of acute aortic syndrome.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of anabolic–androgenic steroid.
- (aviation) Initialism of Advanced Automation System, a system for radar control of transoceanic air corridors.
- an associate degree in applied science
name
- (help) Initialism of Assyrian Aid Society.
- (medicine) Initialism of Association for Academic Surgery.
- (biotechnology) Initialism of All-America Selections, an organization that promotes development of new garden seed varieties.
- (astronautics) Initialism of American Astronautical Society, an independent scientific and technical group in the United States.
- (sciences) Initialism of African Academy of Sciences, an Africa-wide scientific organization.
- (research) Initialism of American Antiquarian Society, an American society and national research library.
- (health) Initialism of Air Ambulance Service, a UK charity.
- (military) Initialism of Arnold Air Society, a professional honorary service organization for Air Force officer candidates.
- (astronomy) Initialism of American Astronomical Society, a United States society of professional astronomers.
- (politics) Initialism of Ansar al-Sunna, or Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group operating in Iraq.
- (anthropology) Initialism of Australian Anthropological Society.
- (human rights) Initialism of American Anti-Slavery Society.
- (medicine, psychology) Initialism of American Association of Suicidology, an American nonprofit suicide prevention organization.
- (research) Initialism of Association for Asian Studies.
- (Australia, sciences) Initialism of Australian Academy of Science, an independent, government-endorsed society with the aim of promoting science.
- (arachnology) Initialism of American Arachnological Society, a society of amateur and professional arachnologists.
- (research) Initialism of Assyrian Academic Society.
- (physics) Initialism of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.
noun
- something approximating the shape of a triangle
- any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
- a three-sided polygon
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
- (historical, usually in the plural) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.
- (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
- Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
- (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
- A love triangle.
- A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
- (rail transport) A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- (US, Canada) A set square.
- (billiards) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
- (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
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verb
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- (geometry) One of the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle.
- (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
- (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
- A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
- (electricity) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
- A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
- (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
- Synonym of leg up (“forming a step for a person's feet with one's hands”).
- (cricket, attributive) Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
- (usually in the plural) The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
- A stage of a journey, race etc.
- (US, slang, military) An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
- (anatomy) The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
- (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
- In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
- Alternative spelling of leg..
- In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
- (finance) An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
- (gambling) An individual bet in a parlay (a series of bets where the stake and winnings are cumulatively carried forward).
- (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
- (figurative) Something that supports.
- A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
- (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
- (journalism) A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
- An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
- a section or portion of a journey or course
- a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion
- the limb of an animal used for food
- a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg
- (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack
- one of the supports for a piece of furniture
- a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- a part of a forked or branching shape
adj
verb
noun
- ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
- (informal, African-American Vernacular) Alternative form of coz, cousin.
- Alternative form of coss, a traditional Nepali unit of distance.
- (chiefly UK) Synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce.
- plural of co
conj
det
noun
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- a light brown the color of topaz
- A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
- An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
- The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
- (dialectal) A twig or small switch.
- A light, brown-like colour.
- Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
adj
verb
- treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- get a tan, from wind or sun
- (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
- (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
- (transitive, stative) To work as a tanner.
- (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
num
noun
- ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
- (mathematics) A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
- A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
- (art) A visual interaction between two or more lines or edges that creates a perceived relationship between them, often in a way that the artist did not intend.
- (music) A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.
- (differential geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
adj
noun
- ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- (colloquial, especially politics) Clipping of secretary.
- (colloquial) Clipping of second (“short indeterminate period of time”).
- (informal) Second, ¹⁄₆₀ of a minute.
adj
noun
adj
noun
- (geometry) A line segment joining the vertex of triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side.
- (statistics) A number separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, population, or probability distribution. The median of a finite list of numbers can be found by arranging all the observations from lowest value to highest value and picking the middle one (e.g., the median of {3, 3, 5, 9, 11} is 5). If there is an even number of observations, then there is no single middle value; the median is then usually defined to be the mean of the two middle values.
- (US) The area separating two lanes of opposite-direction traffic.
- the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items
adj
- (anatomy) Situated in a middle, central, or intermediate part, section, or range of (something).
- (statistics) Having the median as its value.
- (anatomy, botany) In the middle of an organ, structure etc.; towards the median plane of an organ or limb.
- relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle
- dividing an animal into right and left halves
- relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)
noun
- an object shaped like an equilateral triangle
- the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet
- a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
- (medicine) Ellipsis of delta variant (variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus).
- (US military, US Space Force) A military unit, nominally headed by a colonel, equivalent to a USAF operations wing, or an army regiment.
- A type of cargo bike that has one wheel in front and two in back.
- (computing, informal) A small but noticeable effect. Compare epsilon.
- (physics) one of four baryons consisting of up and down quarks with a combined spin of 3/2: Δ⁺⁺ (uuu), Δ⁺ (uud), Δ⁰ (udd), or Δ⁻ (ddd)
- (chemistry) A value in delta notation indicating the relative abundances of isotopes.
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Delta from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- (electricity, often attributive) The closed figure produced by connecting three coils or circuits successively, end for end, especially in a three-phase system.
- The fourth letter of the modern Greek alphabet Δ, δ.
- (surveying) The angle subtended at the center of a circular arc.
- (astronomy) a star that is usually the fourth brightest of a constellation.
- (computing) The set of differences between two versions of a file.
- (mathematics, physics, engineering) The symbol Δ; A change in a quantity, likely from "d" for "difference".
- (finance) The rate of change in an option value with respect to the underlying asset's price.
- A landform at the mouth of a river where it empties into a body of water.
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- ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- estrangement from god
- an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
- the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet
- (sports) sin bin
- A flaw or mistake.
- A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- A misdeed or wrong.
- Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
- Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).
- A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- (theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
- A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
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- (quilting) Initialism of half-rectangle triangle.
- Initialism of habit reversal training.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of hostage rescue team.
- (linguistics) Initialism of high rising terminal, a type of speech that rises in pitch at the end (sounding like a question).
- (medicine) Initialism of hormone replacement therapy.
- hormones (estrogen and progestin) are given to postmenopausal women; believed to protect them from heart disease and osteoporosis
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- (geometry) The line perpendicularly connecting a figure’s vertex, especially a triangle’s apex, to the side opposite to the vertex.
- (astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body above our Earth's horizon.
- (commutative algebra, of an ideal) Height.
- Highest point or degree.
- The absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
- (geometry) The length of such a line; the distance measured perpendicularly from a figure's vertex to the side opposite to the vertex.
- Height of rank or excellence; superiority.
- A vertical distance.
- elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- the perpendicular distance from the base of a geometric figure to the opposite vertex (or side if parallel)
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- (geometry) A polyiamond consisting of two triangles.
- (baseball) The infield of a baseball field.
- (geometry) A rhombus, especially when oriented so that its longer axis is vertical.
- (card games) A card of the diamonds suit.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A town square.
- A very pale blue color.
- Something that resembles a diamond.
- A diamond ring.
- (baseball) The entire field of play used in the game.
- A gemstone made from this mineral.
- (heraldry) Sable, when blazoning by precious stones.
- (uncountable) A glimmering glass-like mineral that is an allotrope of carbon in which each atom is surrounded by four others in the form of a tetrahedron.
- the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
- a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
- a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
- a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- the baseball playing field
- very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
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- (geometry) A line segment through one of the vertices of a triangle that bisects the perimeter of the triangle.
- (graphical user interface) A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- One who splits hairs in argument, etc.
- A person or a thing that splits.
- (colloquial) A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to split categories such as species or dialects up into smaller groups.
- A quarry worker who splits slate into sheets.
- (baseball) A split-finger fastball.
- A device with two electrical plugs that plugs into an electrical outlet, effectively converting the electrical outlet into two; socket converter.
- A wedge used to cut logs down the middle.
- (US) A wheaten cake split and buttered when hot.
- a laborer who splits logs to build split-rail fences
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a worker who splits fish and removes the backbone
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- The topological space obtained by identifying the sides comprising the boundary of a triangle, two sides with consistent orientation and the third with the reverse orientation.
- A conical hat that a school pupil is forced to wear to indicate that he or she is a dunce.
- a cone-shaped paper hat formerly placed on the head of slow or lazy pupils
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- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (neuroanatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
- (entomology) A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
- (architecture) One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
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- any shape that is triangular in cross section
- (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
- something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
- a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
- a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
- a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
- One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
- One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
- (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
- (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
- (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
- (US, regional, especially Westchester, New York) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
- (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
- A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
- (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
- (typography, US) A háček.
- (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
- (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
- (zoology, collective) A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
- (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
- (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
- (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
- (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
- One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
- (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
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- squeeze like a wedge into a tight space
- put, fix, force, or implant
- (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
- (ambitransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
- (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
- (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
- (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
- (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
- (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
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- A figure formed by two equilateral triangles intersecting regularly so as to form a six-pointed star.
- (Wicca) A pentagram, or a disk with a pentagram on it, especially one that is used for magical or mystical purposes.
- A flat talisman, almost always star-shaped, made of parchment, sheet metal, or other substance, marked with a magic symbol or symbols, used in magical evocation.
- (Wicca) A circumscribed pentagram.
- a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon
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- (geometry) Initialism of angle-angle-side triangular congruency.
- Initialism of acute aortic syndrome.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of anabolic–androgenic steroid.
- (aviation) Initialism of Advanced Automation System, a system for radar control of transoceanic air corridors.
- an associate degree in applied science
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- (help) Initialism of Assyrian Aid Society.
- (medicine) Initialism of Association for Academic Surgery.
- (biotechnology) Initialism of All-America Selections, an organization that promotes development of new garden seed varieties.
- (astronautics) Initialism of American Astronautical Society, an independent scientific and technical group in the United States.
- (sciences) Initialism of African Academy of Sciences, an Africa-wide scientific organization.
- (research) Initialism of American Antiquarian Society, an American society and national research library.
- (health) Initialism of Air Ambulance Service, a UK charity.
- (military) Initialism of Arnold Air Society, a professional honorary service organization for Air Force officer candidates.
- (astronomy) Initialism of American Astronomical Society, a United States society of professional astronomers.
- (politics) Initialism of Ansar al-Sunna, or Jamaat Ansar al-Sunna, a militant group operating in Iraq.
- (anthropology) Initialism of Australian Anthropological Society.
- (human rights) Initialism of American Anti-Slavery Society.
- (medicine, psychology) Initialism of American Association of Suicidology, an American nonprofit suicide prevention organization.
- (research) Initialism of Association for Asian Studies.
- (Australia, sciences) Initialism of Australian Academy of Science, an independent, government-endorsed society with the aim of promoting science.
- (arachnology) Initialism of American Arachnological Society, a society of amateur and professional arachnologists.
- (research) Initialism of Assyrian Academic Society.
- (physics) Initialism of Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.
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- (geometry, computer graphics) To divide into triangles.
- divide into triangles or give a triangular form to
- (politics) To pit two others against each other in order to achieve a desired outcome or to gain an advantage; to "play both sides against the middle".
- To locate by means of triangulation.
- survey by triangulation
- measure by using trigonometry
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- (geometry, of a triangle) Exactly the same size as another triangle.
- Converging, merging or flowing together into one.
- (mathematics) Given a binary operation →_β on a set A, and its reflexive, transitive closure ↠_β , then, for all a1, a2, and a3 in A, if a1 →_β a2 and a1 →_β a3, then there must exist an a4 in A such that a2 ↠_β a4 and a3 ↠_β a4.
- (biology) Describing cells in a culture that merge to form a mass.
- (meteorology, of wind) Converging, especially as viewed on a weather chart.
- flowing together
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- (geometry, of a triangle) Having all three interior angles measuring less than 90 degrees.
- Intense; sensitive; sharp.
- (linguistics, chiefly historical) Of an accent or tone: generally higher than others.
- High or shrill.
- (medicine) Of a short-lived condition, in contrast to a chronic condition; this sense also does not imply severity.
- (medicine) Of an abnormal condition of recent or sudden onset, in contrast to delayed onset; this sense does not imply severity, unlike the common usage.
- (orthography, postpositive) Of a letter of the alphabet, having an acute accent.
- (geometry, of an angle) Less than 90 degrees.
- Brief, quick, short.
- (botany) With the sides meeting directly to form an acute angle (at an apex or base).
- Urgent.
- having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
- of critical importance and consequence
- of an angle; less than 90 degrees
- extremely sharp or severe
- having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- ending in a sharp point
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- (geometry, computer graphics) To divide into triangles.
- divide into triangles or give a triangular form to
- (politics) To pit two others against each other in order to achieve a desired outcome or to gain an advantage; to "play both sides against the middle".
- To locate by means of triangulation.
- survey by triangulation
- measure by using trigonometry