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

While Metzger is conservative on matters of doc trine, he is willing to avoid male nouns and pronouns�where the original Hebrew and Greek texts allow it.

From Time Magazine Archive

The church is not a sect organized around a particular doc trine or Biblical text.

From Time Magazine Archive

These Bramans greatly honour the number trine: they hold that there is a God in three persons, and who is not more than one.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte