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Meanings of hypotenuse in English

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Usage of hypotenuse in English
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In this case,the total distance is the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
Wired
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Another highway, Route 30, connected the two, the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
The stand
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Who, for the love of Pythagoras, draws triangles just to calculate their hypotenuse?
The Guardian
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You can imagine that the plane of the mirror is along the hypotenuse.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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Don't know this hypotenuse you're pow-wowin' about any more'n my paint hawss does.
Man-Size
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A spotlight shoots its long hypotenuse upon the floor.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
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A cosine is the adjacent divided by the hypotenuse.
The Guardian
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A, walking from corner to corner, may be said to diangulate the hypotenuse of the meadow.
My Discovery of England
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Visit the Science blog network Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pythagoras: don't believe the hypotenuse.
The Guardian
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The square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the et cetera.
The last novel
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You cannot write a text-book of geometry without reference to a hypotenuse and triangles and a rectangular parallelopiped.
The Story of Mankind
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The square of the hypotenuse.
The bricklayer
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Hole one side level and walk boldly toward the suspected structure, sighting upward along the hypotenuse as you go.
The new yorker
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For each black triangle you see the square on the hypotenuse and the squares on the other two sides.
The Guardian
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We are outside the gates of two Gaelscoileanna on Oakley Road in Ranelagh - the hypotenuse of the D6 elite triangle.
The Irish Times
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The first will be the simplest and smallest construction, and its element is that triangle which has its hypotenuse twice the lesser side.
Timaeus
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