hypothenuse
Americannoun
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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
Then comes the triangular city whose hypothenuse, fronting east, is on the sea; its chief fault is having been laid out on too small a scale.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
I made my own base, knew the length of the perpendicular by calculation, and to draw the hypothenuse had nothing to do but to work my angle.
From The Prairie by James Fenimore Cooper
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
In other words, the base and hypothenuse of the supposed triangle would be so long when compared with the perpendicular, that the two former may be regarded as nearly parallel.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Nathaniel Parker Willis
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