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 Translation for 'isosceles triangle' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   an isosceles triangle | isosceles triangles
stærðf.
jafnarma þríhyrningur {k}
isosceles triangle
stærðf.
þríhyrningur {k}
triangle
stærðf.
jafnhliða þríhyrningur {k}
equilateral triangle
viðvörunarþríhyrningur {k}warning triangle
ástarþríhyrningur {k}eternal triangle
stærðf.
þríhyrnings­ójafna {kv}
triangle inequality
ástarþríhyrningur {k}love triangle
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Usage Examples English
  • It is an acute isosceles triangle with apex angle 36° and base angles 72°.
  • In an isosceles triangle (a triangle with two congruent sides), the altitude having the incongruent side as its base will have the midpoint of that side as its foot.
  • The Euler line of an isosceles triangle is perpendicular to the triangle's base.
  • In late August 1989, while working as an engineer on the jack-up barge "GSF Galveston Key" in the North Sea, Chris Gibson saw an unfamiliar isosceles triangle-shaped delta aircraft, apparently refueling from a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker and accompanied by a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers.
  • A "regular" right symmetric star bipyramid has congruent isosceles triangle faces, and is isohedral.

  • Ancient Greek mathematician Euclid defined three types of triangle according to the lengths of their sides: An isosceles triangle also has two angles of the same measure, namely the angles opposite to the two sides of the same length.
  • Bychkov holds that the idea that the base angles of an isosceles triangle are equal likely came from Egypt.
  • One way to identify "Cetonia aurata" is to look at its scutellum; on the noble chafer the scutellum is an equilateral triangle, but on the rose chafer it is an isosceles triangle.
  • -gon bases and congruent isosceles triangle side faces, thus have the same (dihedral) symmetry group as the uniform [...] -antiprism, for [...].
  • The pentagram includes ten isosceles triangles: five acute and five obtuse isosceles triangles.

  • This rule is not the case when dealing with Isosceles Triangles (Soldiers and Workmen) with only two congruent sides.
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