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Triangulum

Definition: Triangulum

Triangulum

Noun

1. A small northern constellation near Perseus between Andromeda and Aries.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Triangulum

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

See constellation.Abbreviation Tri, Tria. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Triangulum

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Triangulum is a small northern constellation whose three brightest stars, of third and fourth magnitude, form an elongated triangle. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy.

Triangulum is the location of the Triangulum Galaxy, M33, one of the members of the Local Group.

Compare Triangulum Australe.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Triangulum."

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Synonym: Triangulum

Synonym: the Triangle (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Triangulum

English words defined with "Triangulum": Circinus. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Triangulum": Tr Au, TrA, Tr Au, Tri, Tria. (references)
Etymologies containing "Triangulum": triangle. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Triangulum" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (triangle), Latin (triangle).

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Commercial Usage: Triangulum

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Books

  • Aggregating behavior and exploitation of subterranean habitat by gravid eastern milksnakes : Lampropeltis t. triangulum (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Triangulum

Photos:
Triangulum

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Photo Album: Triangulum

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Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Eastern milksnake - Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum. This snake is a constrictor and kills its prey by exerting sufficient pressure to stop its breathing. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Star map with constellations of Andromeda, Perseus, and Triangulum. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Usage Frequency: Triangulum

"Triangulum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Triangulum" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)80%4175,879
Noun (common)20%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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Expressions: Triangulum

Expressions using "Triangulum": Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum Australe. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Triangulum

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

club triangulum uniform

16

lampropeltis triangulum

3

triangulum

3

lampropeltis triangulum triangulum

2
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Anagrams: Triangulum

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n-r-t-u-u"

-1 letter: umlauting.

-2 letters: maturing, ngultrum.

-3 letters: malting, marling, marting, mauling, migrant, mutular, natrium, ruminal, tumular, ungular, uranium.

-4 letters: alumin, alumni, antrum, arming, atrium, autumn, granum, gratin, guitar, laming, langur, lingam, lingua, lumina, luring, luting, malign, manitu, margin, marlin, martin, mating, mitral, muling, muring, muting, mutual, nilgau, nutria, ramtil, rating, ratlin, ritual, ruling, rumina, taming, taring.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-m-n-r-t-u-u"
 

+4 letters: summersaulting.

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Alternative Orthography: Triangulum


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 72 69 61 6E 67 75 6C 75 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-.    ..    .-    -.    --.    ..-    .-..    ..-    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01101100 01110101 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#110 &#103 &#117 &#108 &#117 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0072 0069 0061 006E 0067 0075 006C 0075 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54847567807387788779

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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