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A polygon with three sides and three angles.
- Meronyms: angle, side, cathetus, leg, hypotenuse; see also Thesaurus:polygon
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A set square.CanadaUS
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A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
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A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
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A love triangle.
- One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.
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The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
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A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
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A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound for corporal punishment.historicalplural-normally
- I was flogged in 1840. To this day I feel a pain in the chest from the triangles.
- But nothing is said as to what we are to do with the negro when we have cut him off from absolute dominion; we are not informed if we may spread him on the triangles as aforetime;
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Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium.
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A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side.
- After turning on the triangle at Jeumont, we set off light engine back to Aulnoye.
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