Isosceles Definition

ī-sŏsə-lēz
adjective
Designating a figure, esp. a triangle, with two equal sides.
Webster's New World

Origin of Isosceles

  • From Ancient Greek ἰσοσκελής (isoskelēs), from ἴσος (isos, “equal”) + σκέλος (skelos, “leg”); another word of the same root is scalene.

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin īsoscelēs from Greek īsoskelēs īso- iso- skelos leg

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Isosceles Sentence Examples

  • To see this, imagine an isosceles triangle with a altitude drawn.

  • Being either isosceles or scalene is inseparable from a triangle in real existence.

  • As the Greek philanderer isosceles used to say, " There are 3 sides to every triangle " .

  • Take any two arbitrary directions in the plane of the paper, and draw a small isosceles triangle abc, whose sides are perpendicular to the two directions, and consider the equilibrium of a small triangular prism of fluid, of which the triangle is the cross section.

  • The demihexagon is an isosceles trapezium (trapezoid in American usage) in which three of the sides have the same length.

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