noun Download 🔗Share A polygon with three sides and three angles. Examples : "The art teacher asked the students to draw different shapes, including triangles. " math figure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A set square. Examples : "The student used triangles to draw perfect right angles for his geometry project. " stationery math item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound. Examples : "The orchestra included the bright, ringing sound of several triangles in the lively piece. " music utensil sound entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played. Examples : "The cue sports players carefully arranged the triangles to position the balls correctly for the next game. " sport game utensil Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A love triangle. Examples : "The new student's arrival created a triangles situation in the school's popular group. " family sex Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects. Examples : "In family therapy, therapists often analyze family relationships as triangles, looking at how the emotional connection between two people is affected by, and affects, a third. " system structure math figure technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle. Examples : "The student used two triangles and a ruler to draw a precise right angle on the graph paper. " stationery math Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which people were bound when undergoing corporal punishment. Examples : ""In the historical drama, the prisoner was publicly humiliated, tied to the triangles in the town square." " police history law Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium. Examples : "While hiking in the tropical rainforest, we spotted several triangles flitting among the trees, their distinctive markings making them easy to identify. " animal insect biology nature Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A triangular formation of railway tracks, with a curve on at least one side. Examples : "The train changed direction by using the triangles just outside the city, allowing it to switch lines without needing a turntable. " technical vehicle structure Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading