hypothenuse
Americannoun
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Miss Josie Beemis, narrowly constricted between shoulders that barely sloped off from her neck, with arms folded flat to her flat bosom and her back a hypothenuse against the counter, looked up.
From Gaslight Sonatas by Hurst, Fannie
It is this: "In every right-angled triangle, the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular is equal to the square of the hypothenuse."
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
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
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