hypothenuse
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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 Jules Verne
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 Fannie Hurst
You and I, reader, were we called on to superintend the education of girls of sixteen, might not select, as favorite points either the hypothenuse or the ancient methods of populating young colonies.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
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 Albert Pike
She spoke in highest praise of the free, independent spirit of the West, quoting the man who said: "Out here we don't ask who your grandfather was but everybody stands on his own hypothenuse!"
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V by Ida Husted Harper
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