Triangle vs Trinity - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between triangle and trinity

is that triangle is a polygon with three sides and three angles while trinity is a group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.

As proper nouns the difference between triangle and trinity

is that triangle is the area comprising the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Used with "the" except when attributive while Trinity is in Christian belief, the three persons (personae) of the Godhead: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

triangle

English

Noun

(en noun)

(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:

One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

(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.

Synonyms

* (polygon) trigon (rare) * (love triangle) love triangle, * See also

Derived 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 * triangulation

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Anagrams

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trinity

English

Noun

(trinities)

A group or set of three people or things; triad; trio; trine.

*:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity , earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

The state of being three; threeness.

Synonyms

* (group of three) threesome, triad, trio, trine, troika, triumvirate * threeness

Derived terms

* nontrinitarian * nontrinitarianism * trinitarian