Crossword-Solution: HYPOTENUSE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hypotenuse | n. | Alt. of Hypothenuse |
We have 4 clues for the answer “HYPOTENUSE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Element of the Pythagorean theorem | 1 answer |
| Line segment whose length is "c," in a2 + b2 = c2 | 1 answer |
| Longest side of a right triangle | 1 answer |
| SIDE of right-angled triangle opposite the right angle | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ECEMZA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HYPOTENUSE (5)
You cannot write a text-book of geometry without reference to a hypotenuse and triangles and a rectangular parallelopiped.
From the triangle of which the hypotenuse is twice the lesser side the three first regular solids are formed—first, the equilateral pyramid or tetrahedron; secondly, the octahedron; thirdly, the icosahedron; and from the isosceles triangle is formed the cube.
The first will be the simplest and smallest construction, and its element is that triangle which has its hypotenuse twice the lesser side.
The one element (that is, the triangle which has its hypotenuse twice the lesser side) having generated these figures, generated no more; but the isosceles triangle produced the fourth elementary figure, which is compounded of four such triangles, joining their right angles in a centre, and forming one equilateral quadrangle.
Resolution of this triangle gives us the length of the hypotenuse MC, and the difference between this and the radius (AC), or CD, is obviously the height of the atmosphere (h), which was the measurement desired.
Quotes with HYPOTENUSE (2)
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?
Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would never have spent so much time calculating the value of Pi. He would have been baking her a Pie! If Euclid had ever beheld a vision of loveliness like the one I see walking into my anti-math class, he would have forgotten all the geometry of lines and planes, and concentrated on the sweet simplicity of soft curves. If Pythagoras had ever had a girl look at him the w…
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2023–2024).