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Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei]



Definitions of: triangle

Definition: A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.

Definition: An instrument of percussion, usually made of a rod of steel, bent into the form of a triangle, open at one angle, and sounded by being struck with a small metallic rod.

Definition: A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.

Definition: A kind of frame formed of three poles stuck in the ground and united at the top, to which soldiers were bound when undergoing corporal punishment, -- now disused.

Definition: A small constellation situated between Aries and Andromeda.

Definition: A small constellation near the South Pole, containing three bright stars.

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