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Triadic vs Triangular - What's the difference?

triadic | triangular |

As adjectives the difference between triadic and triangular

is that triadic is of or relating to a triad while triangular is shaped like a triangle.

triadic

English

Adjective

  • of or relating to a triad
  • (obsolete) trivalent
  • (translation studies) describing interpreting that involves three parties, i.e., the two clients and the interpreter
  • * 2008 , Candace Séguinot, Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates , edited by John Kearns, Continuum International Publishing Group, p. 13:
  • The notion that one is doing a worthwhile job and the interpretation of just what kinds of intervention are possible are key in the issues of triadic interpreting...

    See also

    * monadic * dyadic * polyadic

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    triangular

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shaped like a triangle.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].}}
  • Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
  • Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
  • Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.