triangular
English

A triangular sign
Pronunciation
Adjective
triangular (comparative more triangular, superlative most triangular)
- Shaped like a triangle.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess:
- 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, […].
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- Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
- Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
- Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.
Related terms
Translations
shaped like a triangle
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of or pertaining to triangles
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having a triangle as a base
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having three elements or parties
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Catalan
Verb
triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, past participle triangulat)
- to triangulate
Conjugation
Conjugation of triangular (first conjugation)
infinitive | triangular | ||||||
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present participle | triangulant | ||||||
past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
singular | triangulat | triangulada | |||||
plural | triangulats | triangulades | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | triangulo | triangules | triangula | triangulem | trianguleu | triangulen | |
imperfect | triangulava | triangulaves | triangulava | triangulàvem | triangulàveu | triangulaven | |
future | triangularé | triangularàs | triangularà | triangularem | triangulareu | triangularan | |
preterite | triangulí | triangulares | triangulà | triangulàrem | triangulàreu | triangularen | |
conditional | triangularia | triangularies | triangularia | triangularíem | triangularíeu | triangularien | |
subjunctive | jo | tu | ell/ella vostè |
nosaltres nós |
vosaltres vós |
ells/elles vostès | |
present | trianguli | triangulis | trianguli | triangulem | trianguleu | triangulin | |
imperfect | triangulés | triangulessis | triangulés | trianguléssim | trianguléssiu | triangulessin | |
imperative | — | tu | vostè | nosaltres | vosaltres vós |
vostès | |
— | triangula | trianguli | triangulem | trianguleu | triangulin |
Portuguese
Etymology
From Late Latin triangulāris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾi.ɐ̃.ɡu.ˈlaɾ/
- Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar
Verb
triangular (first-person singular present indicative triangulo, past participle triangulado)
- to triangulate
Conjugation
Conjugation of the Portuguese -ar verb triangular
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɾjanɡuˈlaɾ/, [t̪ɾjãŋɡuˈlaɾ]
- Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar
Verb
triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, first-person singular preterite triangulé, past participle triangulado)
- to triangulate
Conjugation
Further reading
- “triangular” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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