triangular definition

English triangular definition

Etymology

From Middle English triangulare, trianguler, triangulere, from Old French triangulaire, triangulier and Latin triangulāris.

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

triangular (comparative more triangular, superlative most triangular)

1. Shaped like a triangle.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword: The Turk Street Mile”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 15:

     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.

Synonyms

• threeside, trigonal

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan triangular definition

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tɾi.ən.ɡuˈla/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tɾi.an.ɡuˈlaɾ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin triangulāris.

Adjective

triangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural triangulars)

1. (geometry) triangular

Etymology 2

From Latin triangulus +‎ -ar.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to triangulate

Conjugation

Further reading

• “triangular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “triangular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “triangular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “triangular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Galician triangular definition

Pronunciation

Adjective

triangular m or f (plural triangulares)

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

Related terms

• triángulo
• triangularmente

Further reading

• “triangular” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Portuguese triangular definition

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin triangulāris.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar

Adjective

triangular m or f (plural triangulares)

1. (geometry) triangular

Related terms

• triângulo

Etymology 2

From Latin triangulus +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to triangulate

Conjugation

Further reading

• “triangular” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “triangular” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “triangular” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “triangular” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “triangular” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “triangular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian triangular definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French triangulaire.

Adjective

triangular m or n (feminine singular triangulară, masculine plural triangulari, feminine and neuter plural triangulare)

1. triangular

Declension

Spanish triangular definition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾjanɡuˈlaɾ/ [t̪ɾjãŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: trian‧gu‧lar

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin triangulāris.

Adjective

triangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural triangulares)

1. (geometry) triangular

Etymology 2

From Latin triangulus +‎ -ar.

Verb

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

1. to triangulate

Conjugation

Further reading

• “triangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014