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Triangular vs Biprism - What's the difference?

triangular | biprism |

As an adjective triangular

is shaped like a triangle.

As a noun biprism is

(mathematics) a fusion of two triangular prisms.

triangular

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shaped like a triangle.
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  • , 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.
  • biprism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A fusion of two triangular prisms
  • (physics) An optical device of this construction used to generate interference fringes