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Definition of Isosceles
1. Adjective. (of a triangle) having two sides of equal length.
Definition of Isosceles
1. a. Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.
Definition of Isosceles
1. Adjective. (geometry) Having two sides of equal length, used especially of an isosceles triangle or isosceles trapezoid. ¹
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Definition of Isosceles
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Isosceles
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Isosceles
Literary usage of Isosceles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth (1888)
"If an arc of a great circle is passed through the vertex of an isosceles spherical
... In this way the solution of an isosceles spherical triangle may be ..."
2. The Kinematics of Machinery: Outlines of a Theory of Machines by Franz Reuleaux (1876)
"68. the isosceles Crank-train. We obtain a "Special case of the chain (C'£) which
has very great theoretical interest if we make a = d, b = c, and, ..."
3. Treatise on Mineralogy: Or, The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdom by Friedrich Mohs (1825)
"The isosceles four-sided pyramids, Fig. 8., are contained under eight isosceles
triangles. 1. The isosceles four-sided pyramids, have two principal sections ..."
4. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by George Albert Wentworth (1902)
"SECTION LIII SOLUTION OF THE isosceles SPHERICAL TRIANGLE An arc of a great
circle, passed through the vertex of an isosceles spherical triangle and the ..."
5. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: And Four-place Tables of Logarithms by William Anthony Granville (1909)
"Solution of isosceles triangles. An isosceles triangle is divided by the
perpendicular from the vertex to the base into two equal right triangles ; hence ..."
6. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by Claude Irwin Palmer, Charles Wilbur Leigh (1916)
"isosceles spherical triangles. — When two sides of a spherical triangle are equal
... The solution of the isosceles spherical triangle is therefore made to ..."
7. Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by David Andrew Rothrock (1910)
"The isosceles Triangle. Since the isosceles triangle may be divided into two equal
... Find the base b and area of an isosceles triangle when the vertical ..."
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