Triangle vs Trine - What's the difference?
triangle | trine |
(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.
Triple, threefold.
(astrology) Denoting the aspect of two celestial bodies which are 120° apart.
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A group of three things.
* Elizabeth Browning
An aspect of two astrological bodies when 120° apart.
(astrology) To put in the aspect of a trine.
* Dryden
As nouns the difference between triangle and trine
is that triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles while trine is a group of three things.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.As an adjective trine is
triple, threefold.As a verb trine is
to put in the aspect of a trine.triangle
English
Noun
(en noun)- One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.
Synonyms
* (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See alsoDerived terms
* acute-angled triangle * acute triangle * anal triangle * Bermuda Triangle * black triangle * circular triangle * cyclic triangle * Devil's Triangle * equilateral triangle * eternal triangle * femoral triangle * golden triangle * Golden Triangle * isosceles triangle * love triangle * North Atlantic Triangle * obtuse-angled triangle * obtuse triangle * Pascal's triangle * Polynesian Triangle * pubic triangle * Reuleaux triangle * right-angled triangle * right triangle * scalene triangle * set triangle * Sierpinski triangle * spherical triangle * star-triangle relation * Sunni Triangle * triangle choke * triangle inequality * triangle offense * triangle piercing * triangle test * triangle wave * triangular * triangular distribution * triangular function * triangular prism * triangulate * triangulationExternal links
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English
Adjective
(-)- The physicians refer this to their temperament, astrologers to trine and sextile aspects, or opposite of their several ascendants, lords of their genitures, love and hatred of planets […].
Noun
(en noun)- A single trine of brazen tortoises.
Verb
- By fortune he [Saturn] was now to Venus trined .
