(n.) Originally, in classical architecture, the triangular space forming the gable of a simple roof; hence, a similar form used as a decoration over porticoes, doors, windows, etc.; also, a rounded or broken frontal having a similar position and use. See Temple.
Example Sentences:
(1) This earned Johnson a Time magazine cover story and unprecedented international attention, essentially because of one clever and incidental gesture, the broken pediment that tops the building.
(2) It clings to the flank of its sandstone church, whose brace of tall, pencil-straight towers are linked by an elegant classical pediment.
(3) (The bizarre knot of branches top left in that Triumph of Pan and the foreboding chunk of pediment signing off The Triumph of David feel like Poussin's attempts at repartee.)
(4) In the middle of Place Charles de Gaulle, a vast tricolour flapped below a list of Napoleon's victories on the Aarch's pediment.
(5) These are "stone hedge" entrances of old row houses that have beautifully carved pediments with European or Chinese motifs.
Triangular
Definition:
(a.) Having three angles; having the form of a triangle.
(a.) Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem.
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(2) Based on a limited experience we have found that triangular flap ureteroplasty is a worthwhile means of repeat reimplantation of the obstructed ureter and perhaps provides a better alternative than transureteroureterostomy.
(3) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(4) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
(5) Findings at surgery included chondromalacia of the ulnar head (19), tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (11), and excessive mobility of the ulnar head (10).
(6) Standardized steps or criteria for designing a triangular flap do not always fit for all types of cleft lip repair.
(7) The characteristic triangular face, stubby nose, peripheral pulmonic stenosis, a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and evidence of hepatic parenchymal disease were present as well as bilateral small kidneys and delayed puberty.
(8) Each contained four triangular boluses of different widths and of a specific iodine concentration.
(9) Dilated, triangular cisterns are often seen at the points of interconnections between longitudinal and transverse elements.
(10) We have investigated whether a correlation exists between the quality of graft epithelialisation and three types of suture: triangular sutures, continuous and interrupted sutures.
(11) This paper describes the external ear anomalies found in this syndrome: short wide pinnae, often cupped and asymmetrical; distinctive triangular concha; discontinuity between the antihelix and antitragus; and 'snipped-off' portions of the helical folds.
(12) The first type included large multipolar neurons with triangular or polygonal perikarya and typically 3-5 dendrites emerging from the poles of each cell.
(13) Transverse loading tests demonstrated that the triangular fibrocartilage is less stiff in neutral forearm rotation.
(14) Silver-Russell's syndrome is a condition characterized by pre- and postnatal growth retardation, a triangular face, clinodactyly of the 5th finger, café au lait patches and hemihypertrophy.
(15) Analytic, functional and traumatological study of the medial compartment of the wrist, showing the role of cohesion of the triangular ligament and its radialis and ulnaris fibrous expensions.
(16) England had started with some well-executed set piece moves, a triangular formation in midfield initially foxing Australia, but it was the Wallabies’ ability to react in open play that marked them out: Foley’s first try, after Israel Folau, otherwise subdued on the night, ran through Robshaw, came after he noticed Ben Youngs had drifted too wide and cut inside the scrum-half and Joe Launchbury before wrongfooting Brown.
(17) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(18) While the arteries show a long stretched spinle or lancet like form they change over blunt, oval, triangular or rhomboid forms into polygonal cells with spiked border lines at the venules.
(19) The histological examination and microangiogram after combined coaxial exposure of CO2 and Nd: YAG lasers revealed triangular avascular or oligovascular zones in the edematous tissue, in which the surviving vessels were narrowed.
(20) It is concluded that the physical performance of sedentary people, athletes and patients with impaired cardio-pulmonary function can be more precisely qualified in quantitative terms by means of computer assisted rectangular-triangular ergospirometry.