corresponding angles
plural nounGeometry.
two nonadjacent angles made by the crossing of two lines by a third line, one angle being interior, the other exterior, and both being on the same side of the third line.
Origin of corresponding angles
1First recorded in 1790–1800
- Compare alternate angles.
Words Nearby corresponding angles
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How to use corresponding angles in a sentence
A general definition is that those triangles are similar in which the corresponding angles are equal.
Montessori Elementary Materials | Maria MontessoriThe scion and stock are cut obliquely, and as nearly as possible at corresponding angles.
They form their bed, and give to eminences corresponding angles.
Buffon's Natural History, Volume II (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonBouquets of the same color can be laid at the corresponding angles.
The Choctaw Freedmen | Robert Elliott Flickinger
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