spherical triangle

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noun Geometry.

a triangle formed by arcs of great circles of a sphere.

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Origin of spherical triangle

First recorded in 1575–85

Words nearby spherical triangle

spherical coordinates, spherical excess, spherical geometry, spherical polygon, spherical sailing, spherical triangle, spherical trigonometry, sphericity, spherics, sphero-, spheroid

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How to use spherical triangle in a sentence

This Texas Triangle now has the same population as the entire State of Florida.
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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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Objects more massive than a certain amount are more spherical than not, while punier specimens are lumpy and irregular.
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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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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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When it is new, and also when in its waning stages it is visible in the daytime, the spherical form is very apparent.
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We may note that in a few months of heavy weather the stones of such a fall have all been reduced to rudely spherical forms.
Outlines of the Earth's History|Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

British Dictionary definitions for spherical triangle

spherical triangle

noun

a closed geometric figure formed on the surface of a sphere that is bounded by arcs of three great circles

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