Definition of Trihedral

1. a. Having three sides or faces; thus, a trihedral angle is a solid angle bounded by three plane angles.

Definition of Trihedral

1. Adjective. (geometry) Having three plane faces that meet at a common point ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Trihedral

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trihedral

1. Having three sides or faces; thus, a trihedral angle is a solid angle bounded by three plane angles. Alternative forms: triedral. See: Trihedron. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trihedral

trigrammic
trigrams
trigraph
trigraphic
trigraphs
trigs
trigyn
trigynia
trigynous
trihalide
trihalides
trihalogenomethane
trihalomethane
trihalomethanes
trihedra
trihedral (current term)
trihedrals
trihedron
trihedrons
trihexagonal
trihexosylceramide
trihexosylceramides
trihexyphenidyl
trihexyphenidyl hydrochloride
trihoral
trihourly
trihybrid
trihybrids
trihydrate
trihydrated

Literary usage of Trihedral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Plane and Solid Geometry by George Albert Wentworth (1885)
"Two symmetrical trihedral angles are equivalent. 0 Let the trihedral ZS-ABC and Z SA'B' C' be symmetrical. We are to prove trihedral ZS-ABC =o* trihedral Z ..."

2. The Guide to Railway Masonry: Comprising a Complete Treatise on the Oblique by Peter Nicholson (1839)
"ON THE trihedral. DEFINITIONS. Def. 1. The solid angle made by three plane angles is called a trihedral. Thus the three faces of a triangular pyramid is ..."

3. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry: Shadows and Perspective. With a Brief by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"In the graphical solution, all these are represented by the equivalent parts of the corresponding trihedraL The solution " in space" for the six cases thus ..."

4. Euclid's Elements of Geometry by Henry Martyn Taylor (1895)
"It may be observed that it is not possible to construct a trihedral angle which shall have its plane angles equal to any three given plane angles. ..."

5. Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Charles Winthrop Crockett (1896)
"Spherical Trigonometry treats of the relations between the face angles and the edge angles of a trihedral angle. An edge angle is the angle between tw0 0f ..."

6. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, Shadows and Perspective: Shadows and by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"Let one of the plane angles, a, be taken in V, and with one of its sides perpendicular to H. Thus, O being the vertex, and OC one edge of the trihedral, ..."

7. A Treatise on the Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart (1909)
"Moving trihedral. In § 11 we took for fixed axes of reference the tangent, ... We shall refer to such a configuration as the moving trihedral. ..."

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