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- English Word Triangulated Definition of Triangulate
- English Word Triangulating Definition of Triangulate
- English Word Triangulation Definition The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determine the triangles into which the country to be surveyed is supposed to be divided, and thus to fix the positions and distances of the several points connected by them.
- English Word Triarchies Definition of Triarchy
- English Word Triarchy Definition Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers.
- English Word Triarian Definition Occupying the third post or rank.
- English Word Triarticulate Definition Having three joints.
- English Word Trias Definition The formation situated between the Permian and Lias, and so named by the Germans, because consisting of three series of strata, which are called in German the Bunter sandstein, Muschelkalk, and Keuper.
- English Word Triassic Definition Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
- English Word Triassic Definition The Triassic formation.
- English Word Triatic Definition A term used in the phrase triatic stay. See under Stay.
- English Word Triatomic Definition Having three atoms; -- said of certain elements or radicals.
- English Word Triatomic Definition Having a valence of three; trivalent; sometimes, in a specific sense, having three hydroxyl groups, whether acid or basic; thus, glycerin, glyceric acid, and tartronic acid are each triatomic.
- English Word Tribal Definition Of or pertaining to a tribe or tribes; as, a tribal scepter.
- English Word Tribalism Definition The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
- English Word Tribasic Definition Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.
- English Word Tribble Definition A frame on which paper is dried.
- English Word Tribe Definition A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of Jacob.
- English Word Tribe Definition A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals.
- English Word Tribe Definition A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.