Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having at least two equal sides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having two legs or sides equal: as, an isosceles triangle.
- noun A genus of cerambycid longicorn beetles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geom.) Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geometry Having two sides of equal length, used especially of an
isosceles triangle orisosceles trapezoid .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of a triangle) having two sides of equal length
Etymologies
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Examples
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Two men compete for the favors of a bored girl who wishes the hell with both of them — a spare sexual isosceles which is nicely symbolized in clean, stripped images of sail, sky, and water which group and re-group in triangles and trapeziums of gray and white as the boatload of trouble skims trimly across the lake.
3 1/2 Miller, Jonathan 1964
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For example, if one knows that the angles of all triangles are equal to two right angles, one knows in a sense-potentially-that the isosceles’ angles also are equal to two right angles, even if one does not know that the isosceles is a triangle; but to grasp this posterior proposition is by no means to know the commensurate universal either potentially or actually.
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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Its head is an isosceles triangle, with the tip being the right angle.
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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Yet, in 5 minutes, it explained to me what an isosceles trapezoidal arrangement is.
À la carte, à la, Al 2009
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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The production is aided by Jon Gaw's unusually functional and evocative set that situates the characters in what amounts to the base of a isosceles triangle whose tip extends indefinitely into a far-off vanishing point, suggesting both a going-nowhere claustrophobia as well as the prospect of infinite hope.
James Scarborough: Little Shop of Horrors, STAGEStheatre, Fullerton James Scarborough 2011
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Well, almost – we were taught trapezoids and isosceles triangles.
À la carte, à la, Al 2009
tbtabby commented on the word isosceles
Isosceles, Isosceles,
Two angles have equal degrees.
Isosceles, Isosceles,
You look just like a Christmas tree.
November 7, 2020