Triangle vs Disphenoid - What's the difference?
triangle | disphenoid |
(geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
(music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
(cue sports) A triangular piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
A love triangle.
* 2009 , Neil McDonald, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:
(systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.
A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
(historical) A frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment.
(mineralogy) Describing a wedge-shaped crystal form of the tetragonal or orthorhombic system.
(mineralogy) Describing a crystal form bounded by eight scalene triangles arranged in pairs, constituting a tetragonal scalenohedron.
(geometry) A polyhedron whose four faces are identical isosceles or scalene triangles.
As a proper noun triangle
is the area comprising the cities of used with "the" except when attributive.As an adjective disphenoid is
(mineralogy) describing a wedge-shaped crystal form of the tetragonal or orthorhombic system.As a noun disphenoid is
(geometry) a polyhedron whose four faces are identical isosceles or scalene triangles.triangle
English
Noun
(en noun)- One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.