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Definition of Three-sided

1. Adjective. Having three sides. "A trilateral figure"

Medical Definition of Three-sided

1. Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-sided

Literary usage of Three-sided

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

1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"vS The triangle fig. of 1 mean . fig. of 2 means fig. of 3 means •{ A three-sided fig. of 4 means A three-sided fig. of 5 means fig. of 6 means and base. ..."

2. The Mycenaean Age: A Study of the Monuments and Culture of Pre-Homeric Greece by Chrēstos Tsountas, James Irving Manatt (1897)
"three-sided Cornelian from Eastern Crete (Evans, 24) Mr. Evans gives various reasons (pp. 300 f.) which convince him that these different symbols are not ..."

3. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"Beginning with a three.sided field, ABC in the figure, draw a meridian through A, and draw perpendiculars to it as in the last figure. ..."

4. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... there appear two smaller converging plants, which terminate in an edge : fig. 32, shews the cube with bevelled edges: fig. 33, the three-sided pyramid ..."

5. A Treatise on Surveying, Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"Beginning with a three-sided field, ABC in the figure, draw a meridian through A, and draw perpendiculars to it as in the last figure. ..."

6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1883)
"A fragment of a three-sided crystal, an inch long and an inch and a half wide, consisting of ... A dark green three-sided crystal with trilateral pyramid, ..."

7. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"For Kant's real problem is to explain why our judgment that a three-sided figure must contain three angles must apply to all three-sided figures. ..."

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