WORD OF THE DAY

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triangle

For when a triangle "moves," the points do not move with it.

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The district of Bugey occupies the triangle formed by the Rhone in the south-east of the department.

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His shoulders and hips formed a triangle that rippled with movement.

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Its form is approximately that of an isosceles triangle, with the sharp angle extending into Lower California, W.

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projected on to the plane of the triangle as Ee, E'e and E"e.

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A triangle is a rectilineal figure; i.e.

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In plan it is a triangle, protected by a double moat, and has round towers at the angles.

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We reach similar conclusions when we recognize that the laws of nature are general or hypothetical; not in Mill's sense (" If you had such a non-existent thing as three perfectly straight lines united in a triangle "), but in a sense noted in F.

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To say, for instance, that the area of a right-angled triangle is half the area of the rectangle contained by the two sides, is not to say what the area is, but what it is the half of.

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Since the potential rises proportionately to the quantity in the conductor, the ends of these ordinates will lie on a straight line and define a triangle whose base line is a length equal to the total quantity Q and V height a length equal to the final potential V.

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This triangle, for the convenience of calculation, we divide into two right-angled triangles.

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If the section of the finished tube is to be a triangle, with the enamel and bore at the base, the molten mass is pressed into a V-shaped mould before it is pulled out.

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The Treaty of Trianon satisfied the most essential claims of Yugoslavia, by dividing the whole Banat (save a small Magyar triangle opposite the city of Szeged) between her and Rumania, and by assigning to her the whole Backa (except Baja and district), part of the Baranya (forming the angle between Drave and Danube) and the Medjumurje (between Drava and Mur).

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She stopped in front of a small mural depicting a triangle with a form at each of the points.

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quadrilaterals, hexagons, &c., all of which are rectilineal figures, a triangle is "differentiated" as having three sides.

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the order in which they occur in the triangle) round a circle.

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If there were such a thing as a triangle contained by absolutely straight lines, its three angles would no doubt measure what Euclid says; but straight lines and true triangles nowhere exist in reruns natura.

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(iii) Right-angled triangle: sides a and b, enclosing the right angle.

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For fuller discussion reference should be made to Geometry and Trigonometry, as well as to the articles dealing with particular figures, such as Triangle, Circle, &C.

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If both places have the same latitude we have to deal with an isosceles triangle, of which two sides and the included angle are given.

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