Triangle vs Prism - What's the difference?
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(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.
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(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.
(geometry) A polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.
A transparent block in the shape of a prism (typically with triangular ends), used to split or reflect light.
A crystal in which the faces are parallel to the vertical axis.
In geometry terms the difference between triangle and prism
is that triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles while prism is a polyhedron with parallel ends of the same size and shape, the other faces being parallelogram-shaped sides.As a proper noun Triangle
is the area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive.triangle
English
Noun
(en noun)- One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.