hypothenuse

American  

[hahy-poth-uh-noos, -nyoos] / haɪˈpɒθ əˌnus, -ˌnyus /

noun

1. hypotenuse.

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Example Sentences

Concrete experiences are useful whenever the meaning of a number, like 9 or 7⁄8 or .004, or of an operation, like multiplying or dividing or cubing, or of some term, like rectangle or hypothenuse or discount, or some procedure, like voting or insuring property against fire or borrowing money from a bank, is absent or incomplete or faulty.

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Square the base and the perpendicular, and the square root of the sum of the two will give the hypothenuse, and this multiplied by 2 and added to one-half the circumference of each pulley is the required length for the belt.

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A rectangular prism, the hypothenuse plane of which is silvered, is placed in the end of the straight portion of the tube, its superior face being seen just anterior to the angle formed by the beak.

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On a leaf of my carnet I made a map which was shaped like an immense right-angle triangle, its apex Fort Stanwix in the west; its base Schoharie Creek; the Mohawk River its perpendicular; its hypothenuse my bee's-flight to Oneida.

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But the surer way to run across Sir John's trail—and perhaps McDonald's—was to take to the western forests, follow the hypothenuse of the great triangle, and, travelling lightly and swiftly northwest, headed straight for Oneida Lake.

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