Phrase Hound found 57 phrases and 5 compound words that contain triangles. The most common are listed below. Open triangles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 57
- black trianglesplural of black triangle: One of a class of triangle-shaped unidentified flying objects, usually with a light in each corner.
- iron trianglesplural of iron triangle: The policy-making relationship among the congressional committees, the bureaucracy (executive, sometimes called “government agencies”), and interest groups or lobbyists.
- love trianglesplural of love triangle: A situation in which two suitors vie or compete for the love of the same person.
- pink trianglesplural of pink triangle: A homosexual.
- right trianglesplural of right triangle: A triangle having a right angle as one of its interior angles.
- spherical trianglesplural of spherical triangle: A triangle, described on the surface of the sphere, whose each side is an arc of some great circle.
- carotid trianglesplural of carotid triangle: A space in each lateral half of the neck that is bounded in back by the sternocleidomastoid muscle, below by the omohyoid muscle, and above by the stylohyoid and digastric muscles.
- femoral trianglesplural of femoral triangle: An anatomical space in the superior and medial aspect of the anterior thigh, bounded superiorly by the inguinal ligament, laterally by the sartorius muscle, and medially by the adductor longus muscle.
- Pythagorean trianglesplural of Pythagorean triangle: A triangle whose sides form a Pythagorean triple, such as 3, 4, 5.
- equilateral trianglesplural of equilateral triangle: A triangle having all three sides equal.
- Sierpinski trianglesplural of Sierpinski triangle: A fractal consisting of three copies of itself, shrunk to half size, arranged in a triangular shape without rotating.
- sternocostal trianglesplural of sternocostal triangle: Small zones lying between the costal and sternal attachments of the thoracic diaphragm.
- Devil's Trianglesplural of Devil's Triangle: An area of the Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes have disappeared under allegedly mysterious circumstances.
- acute trianglesplural of acute triangle: A triangle all of the angles of which are acute.
- anterior trianglesplural of anterior triangle: A triangular region that is a landmark in the neck, has its apex at the sternum pointing downward, and is bounded in front by the anterior midline of the neck, behind by the anterior margin of the …
- anti-trianglesplural of anti-triangle: A three-vertex independent set, the complement of a triangle.
- Bermuda Trianglesplural of Bermuda Triangle: An area of the Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes have disappeared under allegedly mysterious circumstances.
- blue trianglesplural of blue triangle: Graphium sarpedon, a swallowtail butterfly that is found in East, South and Southeast Asia, as well as eastern Australia.
- Cape trianglesplural of Cape triangle: One of several denominations of triangular postage stamps issued by the Cape of Good Hope during the period 1853-1864.
- color trianglesplural of color triangle: A plane triangular graph on which are drawn all the colours that can be made by the additive mixing of red blue and green; these three primary colours are at the apices, while white is in the middle.
- colour trianglesplural of colour triangle: A plane triangular graph on which are drawn all the colours that can be made by the additive mixing of red blue and green; these three primary colours are at the apices, while white is in the middle.
- combustion trianglesplural of combustion triangle: The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).
- danger trianglesplural of danger triangle: A triangular sign warning of danger.
- eternal trianglesplural of eternal triangle: A relationship involving three persons (usually two women and one man or two men and one woman) among whom there are conflicting and competing attachments of a romantic or emotional nature.
- fire trianglesplural of fire triangle: The three elements necessary and sufficient to sustain a fire: fuel (e.g. wood or petrol/gasoline), oxidizer (e.g. oxygen), and sufficient heat (e.g. reaction temperature or activation energy).
Compound words 5
- foretrianglesplural of foretriangle: A triangular space on a sailing ship between the deck, foremast, and forestay.
- gyrotrianglesplural of gyrotriangle: A triangle in gyrovector space.
- nanotrianglesplural of nanotriangle: A nanoscale triangle.
- pseudotrianglesplural of pseudotriangle: Any subset of a plane that lies between any three mutually tangent convex sets
- subtrianglesplural of subtriangle: A triangle forming part of a larger triangle.