EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equilateral triangle mean? 

• EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE (noun)
  The noun EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE has 1 sense:

1. a three-sided regular polygon

  Familiarity information: EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A three-sided regular polygon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

equiangular triangle; equilateral triangle

Hypernyms ("equilateral triangle" is a kind of...):

regular polygon (a polygon with all sides and all angles equal)

triangle; trigon; trilateral (a three-sided polygon)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equilateral triangle"):

delta (an object shaped like an equilateral triangle)

 Context examples 

In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)