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tri·an·gu·lar

 (trī-ăng′gyə-lər)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or shaped like a triangle.
2. Having a triangle for a base: a triangular pyramid.
3. Relating to or involving three entities, such as three people, objects, or ideas.

tri·an′gu·lar′i·ty (-lăr′ĭ-tē) n.
tri·an′gu·lar·ly adv.
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Likewise upon the extreme stern of the boat where it was also triangularly platformed level with the gunwale, Starbuck himself was seen coolly and adroitly balancing himself to the jerking tossings of his chip of a craft, and silently eyeing the vast blue eye of the sea.
Their women all in simple black, with white caps and shawls of faded tints folded triangularly on the back, strolled lightly by their side.
A head-to-toe exam shows micronychia of both toes and fingers, with lunulae that are triangularly shaped.
* The Combined Facial Mask/Facial Moisturizer is a triangularly shaped package that contains a facial mask on one side and a facial moisturizer on the other.
These lacunae are triangularly shaped in equatorial section, and prominent (larger than the locules).
No matter how outrageous a contestant's imagination may be, the blouse-and-skirt ensemble had to retain its distinct elements-the panuelo (ruffle or collar folded triangularly) and the sleeves.
Subsurface characterization at the Bruce Site was accomplished through field and laboratory investigations at three triangularly located vertical DGR-series boreholes (150 mm diameter) intersecting the intermediate and deep groundwater regimes with a separation distance of 1.2 km.
The loading factors [alpha] and [beta] are 0.3 and 1.0, 0.3 and 1.2, 0.3 and 2.4, and 0.5 and 1.2, which represent trapezoidal cyclic loading without a rest period, trapezoidal cyclic loading with 0.2 [t.sub.0] rest period, trapezoidal cyclic loading with 1.4 [t.sub.0] rest period, and triangularly cyclic loading with a 0.2 [t.sub.0] rest period, respectively.
In its pure form, corundum (often known as "sapphire") consists of parallel sheets of triangularly coordinated [O.sup.2-] ions with [Al.sup.3+] ions in pairs occupying 2/3 of the octahedral interstices between the sheets [1, 2].