What's the difference between equilateral and isosceles?

Equilateral


Definition:

  • (a.) Having all the sides equal; as, an equilateral triangle; an equilateral polygon.
  • (n.) A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others; also, a figure of equal sides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A significant concentration of the activity could be observed for the most part in the equilateral Lymphonoduli cervicales profundi and superficiales and for the less part also in the equilateral Lymphonoduli mandibulares and contralateral Lymphonoduli cervicales profoundi.
  • (2) Electron micrographs of negatively stained hexamers show a characteristic curvilinear, equilateral triangle of 12 nm in diameter (top view) and a rectangle measuring 10 x 12 nm (side view).
  • (3) At poles of cells, microfibrils do not terminate but pass around three equilaterally arranged points, resulting in microfibril continuity between the twelve helically wound wall layers.
  • (4) Microtubules capable of binding a xamimum of 4 linkers are arranged in regularly distorted hexagons and equilateral triangles.
  • (5) We present a configuration of 3 applicators subtended by an equilateral triangle in order to target and relocate a 'hot spot' for improved treatment of deep tumors.
  • (6) The Haberdasher's Puzzle is an equilateral triangle that is cut into four pieces that can be rearranged into a square.
  • (7) This method consists of forming two equilaterally triangular mucosal flaps on the vermilion and a small triangular skin flap in the new position of the commissure and transposing these three flaps to reconstruct the commissure.
  • (8) 3- and 4-year-old children and adults were asked to judge which way an equilateral triangle was pointing under different contextual conditions.
  • (9) Electronic subtraction of the voltage variations near the angle of the mouth from the voltage variations at the equilateral eye cancels the cardiac interference and allows a pure recording of horizontal eye movements.
  • (10) The ophthalmologist's management team might be likened to an equilateral triangle, the base of which consists of the personal banker and the two other parts being attorney and accountant.
  • (11) Visuospatial processing in alcoholics was investigated by aligning two elements along different axes of an equilateral triangle and asking subjects to report the direction the triangle appeared to point when first observed.
  • (12) For this purpose, an equilateral triangular flap of 2.5 cm per side was formed at the upper margin of the remaining stomach along the greater curvature.
  • (13) The pulmonary vein fat pad (PVFP) in the dog heart is triangular in shape with roughly equilateral dimensions of approximately 1 cm, its base extending from superior to inferior veins, and its apex extending nearly to the sinus nodal artery as it courses rostrally in the sulcus terminalis.
  • (14) Crucial to our approach is the creation of a net of approximately equilateral triangles from which we generate the control points used as the basis for describing the surface.
  • (15) We suppose that three capillaries, which are parallel to each other and have the same radius and circular section, are arranged in equilateral triangle.
  • (16) Clusters of three pseudopods characterized by short distances (6-9 microns) and equilateral organization (angles 40-60 degrees) were observed after a 10-min stimulation.
  • (17) God does not want you to eat an equilateral egg, which makes it a forbidden fruit, and there is nothing sweeter.
  • (18) After injection in the anterior chamber a significant concentration could be observed for the most part in the equilateral Lymphonodulus cervicalis superficialis.
  • (19) In 1979, as homework for Rubik, Erdély devised a new shape made out of a sequence of alternate, and shrinking, equilateral and isosceles triangles.
  • (20) Based on this, a new explanatory model has been constructed, consisting of an equilateral triangle with one of the apices on a horizontal line, along which dietary and oral hygiene habits are scaled.

Isosceles


Definition:

  • (a.) Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The curve of function C = f(N), including the extensional line, is an isosceles triangle.
  • (2) Using this easily taught method, an isosceles triangular flap can be plotted which will interdigitate into the noncleft side of the lip.
  • (3) Six basic figures were employed (circle, ellipse, right triangle, isosceles triangle, along with two historical psycholinguistic forms--uloomu and takete) and varied on three dimensions of size, complexity, and density.
  • (4) A shorthand visualization of base specificity of nucleases in the form of right isosceles triangles is presented.
  • (5) In 1979, as homework for Rubik, Erdély devised a new shape made out of a sequence of alternate, and shrinking, equilateral and isosceles triangles.
  • (6) An isosceles right triangular block is fixed onto the slitlamp to transform its anterior-posterior movement into the transverse direction to be measured conveniently by the microdial with a precision of 0.01 mm.
  • (7) Echocardiographic examination of 56 patients with lymphogranulomatosis involving lymphatic mediastinal nodes showed in four cases a paradoxical excursion of the interventricular septum and systolic thickening ("isosceles triange") of the posterior left ventricular wall.
  • (8) The infraorbital foramen, the anterior nasal spine and the zygomaticoalveolar crest form the vertex of an isosceles triangle.
  • (9) The geometrically definitive left ventricular cone is seen as obliquely-sectioned overturned isosceles cone, with its big base directed upward, right and back, and the small one forward and left.
  • (10) UCD is an inert stainless steel device assuming the shape of the uterine cavity, i.e., isosceles triangular-shaped.
  • (11) It was shown that the loading axes in the disk and in the inter-articular joints worked together biomechanically as an isosceles triangle to accommodate the stresses applied.
  • (12) These multiform off-responses could be roughly classified into two groups; one was high slender triangular shape resembling phasic response and slightly static response, and the other was low isosceles or ladder shape.
  • (13) Among those nozzles for which the water pressure test demonstrated no defects, (L) was less than 1.80cm and (S) was in the form of an isosceles triangle.
  • (14) Three frames that enclose equal areas for a rectangle, a Greek cross, and an isosceles triangle were used to study how 122 subjects learned to fill the frames rapidly with five blocks for five trials, and then the effect of requiring the shapes to be assembled for five more trials without the frames.
  • (15) The beta peak was best approximated by an isosceles triangle (at least for the electrophoresis technique used in these studies), indicating symmetry of the beta peak.
  • (16) This decrease follows the form of an isosceles hyperbola.
  • (17) The Os atoms form an approximate isosceles triangle.

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