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equilateral

[ee-kwuh-lat-er-uhl, ek-wuh-] / ˌi kwəˈlæt ər əl, ˌɛk wə- /


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Lisa will use the same principle but fire its beams over a much greater distance, and between three identical spacecraft arranged as an equilateral triangle.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024

Often, the sandbox game is about the quiet joys of pastoral life, where players construct homesteads, rear livestock, and grow crops in a world made up entirely of perfectly equilateral cubes.

From Slate • Mar. 24, 2023

She added an equilateral oval line, slightly off-center within the disk’s perfect circle.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2023

The equilateral cross with its legs bent at right angles is a millennia-old sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism that represents peace and good fortune.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

It is a variation of the basic principle that if you know one angle and one side of an equilateral or right-angled triangle, then you can determine the other angles and sides.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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