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- noun Plural form of
hypotenuse .
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Examples
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Rock stars don't spend their afternoons dissecting thesis statements and figuring out hypotenuses!
Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002
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Enormously steep hypotenuses he proposed, yet still he could not satisfactorily prove the difficulty.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Rock stars don't spend their afternoons dissecting thesis statements and figuring out hypotenuses!
Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002
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Enormously steep hypotenuses he proposed, yet still he could not satisfactorily prove the difficulty.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Rock stars don't spend their afternoons dissecting thesis statements and figuring out hypotenuses!
Don’t Sleep With Your Drummer Jen Sincero 2002
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Only the fact that we could fly up out of them saved us, and even that was chancy because an evil cloud moved in and made a storm, forcing us to remain for several cold wet hours on the swampy ground with encroaching allegories and hypotenuses and other dangerous creatures.
Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991
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Only the fact that we could fly up out of them saved us, and even that was chancy because an evil cloud moved in and made a storm, forcing us to remain for several cold wet hours on the swampy ground with encroaching allegories and hypotenuses and other dangerous creatures.
Question Quest Anthony, Piers 1991
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He placed the paper triangles side by side on the table, with their hypotenuses touching, so that they formed a kite-shaped figure.
Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956
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He placed the paper triangles side by side on the table, with their hypotenuses touching, so that they formed a kite-shaped figure.
Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956
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For instance, any courses you sail like these will be the hypotenuses of a series of right-angled triangles.
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
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