hypothenuse
Americannoun
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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 Cooper, James Fenimore
"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
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
The side opposite, as C, is called the hypothenuse.
From Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught by Rose, Joshua
That the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the square of the two sides, is a proposition which expresses a relation between these two figures.
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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