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Princeton's WordNet

  1. right triangle, right-angled trianglenoun

    a triangle with one right angle

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  1. right trianglenoun

    A triangle having a right angle as one of its interior angles.

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  1. Right triangle

    A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British), or more formally an orthogonal triangle, formerly called a rectangled triangle (Ancient Greek: ὀρθόσγωνία, lit. 'upright angle'), is a triangle in which one angle is a right angle (that is, a 90-degree angle), i.e., in which two sides are perpendicular. The relation between the sides and other angles of the right triangle is the basis for trigonometry. The side opposite to the right angle is called the hypotenuse (side c in the figure). The sides adjacent to the right angle are called legs (or catheti, singular: cathetus). Side a may be identified as the side adjacent to angle B and opposed to (or opposite) angle A, while side b is the side adjacent to angle A and opposed to angle B. If the lengths of all three sides of a right triangle are integers, the triangle is said to be a Pythagorean triangle and its side lengths are collectively known as a Pythagorean triple.

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  1. right triangle

    A right triangle is a type of triangle that has one angle measuring exactly 90 degrees. The side opposite this right angle is known as the hypotenuse, which is the longest side of the triangle. The other two sides are known as the legs of the triangle. The square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides, according to the Pythagorean theorem.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of right triangle in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of right triangle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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