hypothenuse
Americannoun
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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
There, on the vast plains, immense geometrical figures were to be traced by means of luminous reflectors; amongst others, the square of the hypothenuse, vulgarly called the 'Ass's Bridge.'
From The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne
"Oh, not you, indeed!" retorted O'Connell; "why, I suppose you'll deny that you keep a hypothenuse in your house."
From Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell by Anonymous
My brain, acted upon by two forces, was compelled to take the hypothenuse, and I think the concussion was considerably diminished thereby.
From Winter Sunshine by John Burroughs
That the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides, cannot be known, let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and enquiry.
From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by L. A. Selby-Bigge
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