obtuse triangle

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noun Geometry.

a triangle with one obtuse angle.

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The elevation defied geometry, with a roof line that rose from 9 feet at one side of the house to about 20 feet on the other like one leg of an obtuse triangle.
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The scorned party in a love-triangle, he blew his head off while serving overnight tower duty in 2007.
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For her first film, she played a woman caught in a love triangle between a nightclub owner and a country boy.
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We kept joking about the show evolving and blossoming from this love triangle into this five-pointed star.
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Or at least not obtuse about The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
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No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
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On the other hand, the arrows along the sides of the triangle represent actual circulation.
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He was a narrow-headed man with frail-looking sloped shoulders and a thin triangle of face.
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There are sixty thousand acres of mighty good spruce in that triangle between us, and it's as good as ours.
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(e) No part of the counter shall intersect a triangle or the produced perpendicular thereof shown on p. 186.
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