How to Use equilateral in a Sentence

equilateral

adjective

• Cobb’s response was to create a building on which every floor plan above the fifth level has the shape of an equilateral triangle.
  — Robert Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019
• Three tethered pit bulls — big, horizontal heads and huge jaws with those broad, goofy smiles — are in one large yard, 60 feet apart from each other in a near equilateral triangle, not able to touch or play.
  — Gene Weingarten, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Imagine the floor of your bedroom is tiled with regular hexagons, all the same size, and each hexagon is divided into six equilateral triangles.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Jan. 2019
• As early as the 1400s scientists began to suspect that the regular tetrahedron — in which all four faces of the pyramid are equilateral triangles — can’t be used to fill space either.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Feb. 2021
• But most groups are far more difficult to understand than the symmetry group of an equilateral triangle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 June 2020
• In the top row of the tablet, said Wildberger, relatively equal ratios create a near equilateral triangle.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 25 Aug. 2017
• His idealized male figure features legs spread wide to form an equilateral triangle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• That’s when an equilateral triangle becomes an isosceles, often with one person isolated at the farthest point.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 13 July 2020
• Its detectors will be arranged in an equilateral triangle with sides 2.5m kilometres long.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• Soon after sunset on August 11, turn your attention to the gibbous moon forming an eye-catching, equilateral triangle pattern with the brilliant planets Mars and Saturn.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2016
• Soon after sunset on August 11, turn your attention to the gibbous moon forming an eye-catching, equilateral triangle pattern with the brilliant planets Mars and Saturn.
  — National Geographic, 8 Aug. 2016
• The nucleus’s surplus energy enables its alpha clusters to stretch farther apart from one another than the clusters in ground-state carbon-12, which draw together in a tight equilateral triangle.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Dec. 2012
• Select three colors that draw an equilateral triangle on the wheel; royal purple, orange, and green keep especially good company.
  — Mike Irvine, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Plato turned that into the Platonic solids, which are a series of regular 3D shapes, meaning with sides that are all squares, for example, or equilateral triangles—the 3D versions of different regular 2D polygons.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2020
• Of course, exceptions are made for isoscolese and equilateral triangles (the latter would only have 3 distinct triangle definitions).
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 31 Jan. 2020
• For the four Platonic solids built out of squares or equilateral triangles — the cube, tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron — mathematicians recently figured out that the answer is no.
  — Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2020
• In the two-dimensional plane, there’s a candidate for universal optimality — the equilateral triangle lattice — but no proof.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2019
• The new metropolis would consist of a giant tetrahedron—a pyramid made of equilateral triangles—a shape that Fuller, the popularizer of the geodesic dome, admired for its stability and symmetry.
  — Rachel Riederer, New Republic, 29 May 2017
• The group can be expressed as a set of mathematical matrices — arrays of numbers that, when multiplied by coordinates of an equilateral triangle, return the same coordinates.
  — Quanta Magazine, 12 Nov. 2020
• One popular design is based on the mathematical structure of an icosahedron, a three-dimensional shape built from equilateral triangles.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020
• The icosahedron is made from 20 identical equilateral triangles and seemed to exist nowhere except in mathematicians’ imaginations.
  — Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2017

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