trine

Example Sentences

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For example, when two planets are in harmony, they could be trine to one another, which is when they are 120 degrees apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine, in contrast, have their suns making a trine – an angle of 120 degrees.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2016

The fact that the new counterforce policy is a modification of existing doc trine has raised questions about why Carter has dramatized the change by making it a Presidential Directive.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last definite vestige of a foreign policy which this nation has exhibited was the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trine.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Trinity cannot be called trine; otherwise there would be nine realities in God; which, of course, is erroneous.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint