to inscribe
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7.5
- verb
- /ɪnˈskraɪb/
- Specialized
:
inscribir en
- Then he inscribes a pentagram in the air with an ornate dagger.
- inscribed circle
Examples
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In fact, you can see a circle inscribed in this in the pavement down here below.
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The triangles inscribed in the center show the interrelationship between the RGB (black) and CMY (gray) color spaces.
Academic text (2009) -
And the way to show a tetrahedron is to inscribe it in a cube.
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Well, there we go, an equilateral triangle which inscribed in a circle.
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A circle with perimeter eight pi is inscribed in an ellipse whose width is twice its height.
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And what they can also do is come up with a pretty geometric argument where they think about the circle that's inscribed in that triangle.
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So we've drawn that information in, and then we've shown a rectangle that's inscribed inside of the semicircle.
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The mathematician explained how to inscribe a circle within a triangle so that it touches all three sides.
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To solve the problem, we need to inscribe a shape inside another shape while ensuring it touches every side.
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In geometry class, we learned to inscribe a hexagon within a circle for our project on polygons.
Antonyms
- Specialized
1
8.4
To draw a shape, like a circle, around another so it touches at all points
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inscribe in geometry keeps the same idea: in- 'in' plus scribere 'to write'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine 'writing' a shape inside another shape, so to inscribe a circle in a triangle means drawing it so it touches the sides.