<noun.shape> the coastline of Chile and Argentina and Brazil forms two legs of a triangle
a small northern constellation near Perseus between Andromeda and Aries
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any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles
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a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
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Triangle \Tri"an`gle\, n. [L. triangulum, fr. triangulus triangular; tri- (see {Tri-}) + angulus angle: cf. F. triangle. See {Angle} a corner.] 1. (Geom.) A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.
Note: A triangle is either plane, spherical, or curvilinear, according as its sides are straight lines, or arcs of great circles of a sphere, or any curved lines whatever. A plane triangle is designated as scalene, isosceles, or equilateral, according as it has no two sides equal, two sides equal, or all sides equal; and also as right-angled, or oblique-angled, according as it has one right angle, or none; and oblique-angled triangle is either acute-angled, or obtuse-angled, according as all the angles are acute, or one of them obtuse. The terms scalene, isosceles, equilateral, right-angled, acute-angled, and obtuse-angled, are applied to spherical triangles in the same sense as to plane triangles.
2. (Mus.) An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.
3. A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
4. (Mus.) A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.
5. (Astron.) (a) A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda. (b) A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.
{Triangle spider} (Zo["o]l.), a small American spider ({Hyptiotes Americanus}) of the family {Ciniflonid[ae]}, living among the dead branches of evergreen trees. It constructs a triangular web, or net, usually composed of four radii crossed by a double elastic fiber. The spider holds the thread at the apex of the web and stretches it tight, but lets go and springs the net when an insect comes in contact with it.
"In the long run, the situation we have now isn't good for anyone _ even the members of the iron triangle," Reagan said. "Fundamentally, the American people know what's up, and they don't like it.
LIVING and working in Bermuda is rather the reverse of the mythical ship-swallowing Bermuda triangle to which the island gives its name.
"He's trapped in an unholy triangle between the Ayatollah, Noriega and Meese," he said of Bush, referring to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Panamanian strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega and Attorney General Edwin Meese III.
The piece is not just for show, however; it has a great deal of humor as well as a love triangle and a theme.
Back home, Wells said when you think of the center of American barbecue, you can envision a triangle from Kansas City to Memphis to Texas.
Her new film, "Kung Fu Master," is a different view altogether: a love triangle involving a 15-year-old boy, a 40-year-old woman and a brand new video game.
Making up the rest of the triangle, he says, are the pension funds' own staffs and the consultants hired by the funds to oversee investment strategy.
"It was a love triangle and rather than go through the bother of a divorce and its resulting complications, he elected to get rid of his first wife by making her go `boom,"' police Cmdr.
He said global capital flows that once primarily went from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere "now flow within the golden triangle of London, New York and Tokyo."
Jackson also praised teachers and said it was the "love triangle" between his mother, his teacher and his principal that helped him succeed.
The disclosure of the possible love triangle motive surfaced Tuesday, a day after Wustenhoff was given a hero's farewell in a funeral attended by more than 5,000 officers from 50 police departments across the nation.
His tanks stabbed into a militia-held triangle formed by the resort towns of Daraya, Kleiat and Ajaltoun below the ski slopes in the Kesrouan mountains, police reported.
The Iraqi agency said troops of the Seventh Army Corps, backed by elite Presidential Guards, took the "Faw triangle," the bulk of the peninsula that juts out into the Persian Gulf and straddles Iraq's only sea outlet.
It is intimate yet epic, a compelling human triangle played against the cataclysm of the 1968 Soviet invasion.
They were in splendid voice and Juan Pons, singing as the husband, vocally held up his side of the triangle, when the new production premiered on Thursday night.
Valladares said the cells, including one dubbed "the triangle of death," were all torn down shortly after the pictures were taken.
Goh suggested the triangle could boom in the 1990s by combining the land, labor, water and gas of Malaysia's Johor State and Indonesia's Batam Island with the managerial talent available in Singapore.
The difference may be subtle but it is highly significant in the context of the U.S.-Taiwan-China triangle, as shown by the various interpretations of the Shultz remarks I encountered during my trip.
Cary Grant sued and settled over an article alleging he was in a love triangle.
His distastefulness dulls one point of this love triangle, making it hard for the audience to wonder who will end up with whom, let alone who will win the big match.
But its release to prudish Chinese audiences was delayed for months because of the movie's depiction of a love triangle, including several kissing scenes of unusual passion.
Inside the triangle, which generally appears at the bottom of the container, is a number from one to seven.
Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich has hinged his story on domestic drama _ a triangle.
In one, where three made a triangle dancing back to back, they're dressed more regally.