EQUILATERAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equilateral mean? 

• EQUILATERAL (noun)
  The noun EQUILATERAL has 1 sense:

1. a figure whose sides are all equal

  Familiarity information: EQUILATERAL used as a noun is very rare.

• EQUILATERAL (adjective)
  The adjective EQUILATERAL has 1 sense:

1. having all sides or faces equal

  Familiarity information: EQUILATERAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUILATERAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A figure whose sides are all equal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("equilateral" is a kind of...):

figure (a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape)

• EQUILATERAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having all sides or faces equal

Similar:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

 Context examples 

The erect ears are equilateral triangles.

(Belgian Tervuren, NCI Thesaurus)

In the first course, there was a shoulder of mutton cut into an equilateral triangle, a piece of beef into a rhomboides, and a pudding into a cycloid.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)