equilateral
having all the sides equal: an equilateral triangle.
a figure having all its sides equal.
a side equivalent, or equal, to others.
Origin of equilateral
1Other words from equilateral
- e·qui·lat·er·al·ly, adverb
- non·e·qui·lat·er·al, adjective
- non·e·qui·lat·er·al·ly, adverb
- sub·e·qui·lat·er·al, adjective
- un·e·qui·lat·er·al, adjective
- un·e·qui·lat·er·al·ly, adverb
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How to use equilateral in a sentence
One way was to have three of them all on the same face, forming an equilateral triangular base.
At this point, you could think of the crystal as two equilateral triangles connected by a common edge.
Can You Decipher The Secret Message? | Zach Wissner-Gross (riddlercolumn@gmail.com) | June 4, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightSo if five of the edges had the same length — meaning the sixth edge was the only one with a potentially different length — that meant the two faces not straddled by this sixth edge were equilateral triangles.
Can You Decipher The Secret Message? | Zach Wissner-Gross (riddlercolumn@gmail.com) | June 4, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightFor example, if you had three pennies in your pocket, then you could buy three strings that were each 1 cm long and form an equilateral triangle.
Three of them were flat on the ground, with their corners touching and enclosing an equilateral triangle.
equilateral can be read as a parable of the ways we blind ourselves through vanity, love, and greed.
The Khedive of Egypt persuades himself that the success of the equilateral will silence his local political rivals.
A third game was called trign, and was played by three persons, stationed at the angles of an equilateral triangle.
The Private Life of the Romans | Harold Whetstone JohnstonI mean of course by the relative pointed, the entire group of which the equilateral arch is the representative.
The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) | John RuskinIt is built in the figure of an equilateral triangle, having one of its angles pointing towards the sea.
Early Travels in Palestine | Arculf et al.This consists of three plane mirrors so arranged that a cross-section of the three forms an equilateral triangle.
Physics | Willis Eugene TowerMy legs and thighs first formed an obtuse angle, afterwards an equilateral angle, and at length, an acute one.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) | Isaac D'Israeli
British Dictionary definitions for equilateral
/ (ˌiːkwɪˈlætərəl) /
having all sides of equal length: an equilateral triangle
a geometric figure having all its sides of equal length
a side that is equal in length to other sides
Derived forms of equilateral
- equilaterally, adverb
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Scientific definitions for equilateral
[ ē′kwə-lăt′ər-əl ]
Having all sides of equal length, as a triangle that is neither scalene nor isosceles.
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