"Equilateral" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... main road from Radlett to St. Albans, forms an almost equilateral triangle with Park Street and Bricket Wood Stations, L.&N.W.R. It is only a few minutes' walk from the ...
— Hertfordshire • Herbert W Tompkins
... produced an individual idea, upon which we reason, the attendant custom, revived by the general or abstract term, readily suggests any other individual, if by chance we form any reasoning, that agrees not with it. Thus should we mention the word triangle, and form the idea of a particular equilateral one to correspond to it, and should we afterwards assert, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to each other, the other individuals of a scalenum and isosceles, which we overlooked at first, immediately crowd in upon us, and make us perceive the falshood of this ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume
... then a little north of east to Kurnah, while that of the Tigris is S.S.E. to the same point. The lines of the streams in this last portion of their course, together with that which may be drawn across from stream to stream, form nearly an equilateral triangle, the distance being respectively 104, 110, and 115 miles. So rapid is the final convergence of the two ...
— The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea • George Rawlinson
... later, to dispense with the last two, and so, only the square, equilateral triangle, circle and right-angled triangle, it was decided should be made. The work was hurried forward with all the impetus of native energy, practically unlimited money and the power of love. This last is a ...
— The Wolf's Long Howl • Stanley Waterloo
... flat disc, with a third lobe standing out from the middle of the exterior margin, generally at an angle of from 50 deg. to 70 deg. (rarely at right angles) to the upper part, and generally (but not always) bending a little inwards. The shape of the lateral lobe varies from rounded oblong to an equilateral triangle; as it approaches this latter form, it becomes much wider than the upper or lower lobes. In one specimen, and only on one side, the scutum (fig. 2 d) presented five points or projections. In ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin
... upon us on all sides, effecting a landing on the island and pressing forward, with loud cries and much brandishing of spears, to attack the battery. This battery, it may be well to explain, was a small equilateral triangular affair built of sods, and measuring about thirty-five feet on each of its sides. It mounted six nine- pounder brass guns, two to each side; and its walls rose to a height of about seven feet above the ground ...
— The Congo Rovers - A Story of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... man. kuragx-o courage. kurb-o curve. kurioz-a uncommon, curious. kurs-o course (of lessons). kurten-o curtain. kusen-o cushion. kusx-i to lie, recline (239). kutim-o custom, habit. kuv-o tub, large basin. kuz-o cousin. kvadrat-o square (equilateral rectangle). kvalit-o quality, texture. kvankam (conj.), though, although, while (concessive). kvant-o quantity, amount. kvar (adj.), four (136). kvartal-o quarter (of a city). kvazaux (conj.), as though, as if (250). kverk-o oak. kviet-a calm, quiet. kvin (adj.), five ...
— A Complete Grammar of Esperanto • Ivy Kellerman
... comparatively trivial matter, but it is certain that his propositions do not follow from the axioms which he enunciates. A vastly greater number of axioms, which Euclid unconsciously employs, are required for the proof of his propositions. Even in the first proposition of all, where he constructs an equilateral triangle on a given base, he uses two circles which are assumed to intersect. But no explicit axiom assures us that they do so, and in some kinds of spaces they do not always intersect. It is quite ...
— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell
... course, the type of quadrilaterals, and when it is divided from corner to corner a three-sided figure is seen,—the half square or right isosceles triangle; but one which is not the type of three-sided figures. The typical and simplest triangle, the equilateral, is next presented, and if this be divided by a line bisecting one angle, the result will be two triangles of still different shape, the right-angled scalene. If these two are placed with shortest sides together, we have another form, the obtuse-angled triangle, and this ...
— Froebel's Gifts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... was like two sides of an equilateral triangle, Ludlow to the south, and Chaffee to ...
— The Boys of '98 • James Otis
... exhibits a wide range of variation from the small delicate feature of the Chinaman to the large, well-arched nose of the Indian. It may be hollowed out at the bridge instead of arched; again, it may be nearly an equilateral triangle in outline, as in the Veddahs, and the nostrils may open somewhat forward instead of downward. As many as fifteen distinct varieties of the human nose have ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton |
