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trilateral

trilateral

6.3
A shape with three straight sides and three angles
  • noun
  • /ˌtraɪˈlætərəl/
translation icon : triángulo

Examples

  • In which case, the people who consider Israel an obstacle might want to go along with the takedown but just not agree to the subsequent rebuild, and in that way the trilaterals would win in the long run.

    Blog text (18)
  • Thirdly, is it now recognized that the importance of negotiating a trilateral agreement, or failing that, a bilateral agreement which could be carefully tailored to simulate a trilateral system, could be very easily folded into a trilateral sooner?

    Academic text (1991)
  • However, in the succeeding twenty-four years, we have seen the establishment of a number of international institutional arrangements designed to manage that bilateral relationship, and indeed to expand it to a trilateral, and inevitably in this new 21st century, to what will be a multilateral hemispheric relationship (current U.S. politics notwithstanding).

    Academic text (2000)
  • President Barack Obama (center) with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari during a US-Afghan-Pakistan Trilateral meeting in the Cabinet Room.

    Blog text (25)
  • From the very execution of this false flag in this particular manner, we can glean that the Neocon faction seems to be gaining the upper hand from the trilaterals in the power struggle over who controls the rogue network - deep state apparatus ...

    Blog text (18)
  • The triangle is a trilateral shape that has three sides and three angles.

  • In geometry class, we learned that a trilateral is any polygon that has three straight edges.

  • You can easily identify a trilateral by counting its three corners.

Synonyms

triangle
vstrilateral
58 1.0

A flat shape with three straight sides and three angles

is the precise geometric term for that three-sided polygon
trigon
vstrilateral
  • Archaic
9.4

A flat shape with three sides

is the modern geometric term for the same three-sided polygon

How Many Sides

hexagon
5 2.8
pentagon
1 3.0
trilateral
6.3

Surface Forms

trilateral singular
trilaterals plural

Morphology

trilateral = lateral (transparent) = tri + lateral

Formation from 'lateral' with the prefix 'tri-' yields 'three-sided' in a geometric sense.

Etymology

Trilateral as a noun is easy to remember if you think of a triangle: tri- is 'three' and lateral is 'side', so a trilateral is a three-sided figure.