triangular

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lə/, /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjʊ.lə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/, /tɹaɪˈaɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lɚ/

Adjective

triangular (comparative more triangular, superlative most triangular)

1. Shaped like a triangle.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

2. Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
3. Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
4. Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.

Adjective

triangular (masculine and feminine plural triangulars)

1. triangular

Adjective

triangular m, f (plural triangulares)

1. triangular, shaped like a triangle
2. having a triangle as a base
3. having three elements or parties

Etymology

From Late Latin triangularis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾi.ɐ̃.ɡu.ˈlaɾ/

Adjective

triangular m, f (plural triangulares, comparable)

1. triangular

Verb

triangular (first-person singular present indicative triangulo, past participle triangulado)

1. to triangulate

Adjective

triangular (plural triangulares)

1. triangular

Verb

triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, first-person singular preterite triangulé, past participle triangulado)

1. to triangulate