hypothenuse
Americannoun
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Five, measures the hypothenuse, obtained from the three and four, 861-m.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
"The square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle equals four times the area of the triangle, plus the square of the difference of the other two sides."
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850 by Various
"I talked up to 'im, though, middlin' impident; but law! it didn't hurt 'im; he's got a hide like a hypothenuse."
From Stories of the Foot-hills by Graham, Margaret Collier
The side opposite, as C, is called the hypothenuse.
From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Rose, Joshua
He loved nothing better than a vertical path; but this way seemed indefinitely prolonged, and instead of sliding along the hypothenuse as we were now doing, he would willingly have dropped down the terrestrial radius.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Verne, Jules
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