Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In geometry, the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry The side of a
right triangle opposite the right angle.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The word hypotenuse in Greek originally meant “stretched against”.
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The word hypotenuse in Greek originally meant “stretched against”.
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The word hypotenuse in Greek originally meant “stretched against”.
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This is called a hypotenuse, which we learned yesterday in math.
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This is called a hypotenuse, which we learned yesterday in math.
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This is called a hypotenuse, which we learned yesterday in math.
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This is called a hypotenuse, which we learned yesterday in math.
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The hypotenuse already has a name, albeit a lengthy one, so we’ll keep that, except we will capitalize it to distinguish the name of our particular line, Hypotenuse, from the term the hypotenuse.
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The hypotenuse already has a name, albeit a lengthy one, so we’ll keep that, except we will capitalize it to distinguish the name of our particular line, Hypotenuse, from the term the hypotenuse.
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The hypotenuse already has a name, albeit a lengthy one, so we’ll keep that, except we will capitalize it to distinguish the name of our particular line, Hypotenuse, from the term the hypotenuse.
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