(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.
Pentagram
Definition:
(n.) A pentacle or a pentalpha.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a self-portrait from 1983, he poses in front of a pentagram with a machine-gun: Satan's terrorist.
(2) The theoretical distribution of signs permutations in tetragrams, pentagrams and hexagrams constitute the 'controls' with which the empirical data can be compared.
(3) Greaves said one potential design involves a pentagram, a satanic symbol, while another is meant to be an interactive display for children.
(4) In all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it’s like – yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon.