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US
/aɪˈsɔsəˌɫiz/
]
[ UK /aɪsˈɒsəlˌiːz/ ]
[ UK /aɪsˈɒsəlˌiːz/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (of a triangle) having two sides of equal length
How To Use isosceles In A Sentence
- Also, the gold point makes the three equal-length sides SP = PQ = QR in the resulting trapezium so it is trisosceles (to use Scott's phrase) and so is a special isosceles triangle.
- First construct an isosceles triangle whose base angles are double the vertex angle.
- This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides.
- Mathematicians sometimes say that A is an arbitrary isosceles triangle, but all they mean is that A could be any such triangle.
- The base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal.
- This he affected by circumscribing a semicircle about an isosceles right-angled triangle and a segment of a circle similar to those cut off by the sides.
- Any given triangle, either imagined or on paper, must either be acute, right, or obtuse, and either scalene, isosceles, or equilateral, and so any given triangle cannot represent all triangles.
- On the other hand, for their own analysis Carling et al. used an attenuate isosceles triangle with a blunt snout as their model organism, rather than the profile of an eel.
- The martial artists knew that the Isosceles stance would not work with a ‘real’ gun chambered in .45 ACP.
- The most interesting results show, with a very ingenious proof, that an equilateral triangle has a greater area than any isosceles or scalene triangle with the same perimeter.