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Triangulate   Listen
verb
Triangulate  v. t.  (past & past part. triangulated; pres. part. triangulating)  
1.
To divide into triangles; specifically, to survey by means of a series of triangles properly laid down and measured.
2.
To make triangular, or three-cornered.





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"Triangulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... that the chord of an angle is the same thing as twice the sine of half that angle; but as tables of natural sines are not now-a-days commonly to be met with, I have thought it well worth while to give a Table of Chords. When a traveller, who is unprovided with regular instruments, wishes to triangulate, or when having taken some bearings but having no protractor, he wishes to lay them down upon his map, this little table will prove of very great service to him. (See "Measurement ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton


Words linked to "Triangulate" :   measure out, divide, dissever, split, carve up, separate, measure, split up, triangulation, mensurate, survey, triangle


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