 In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides the legs.  Higher Arithmetic - Page 134by John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - 1917 - 314 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton Failor - Geometry - 1904 - 100 pages
...(Fig. 54). Leg. FIG. 55.-Right Triangle. Base. FIG. 56.—Isosceles Triangle. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides are called the legs (Fig. 55). In an isosceles triangle, the equal sides are called the legs,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1904 - 496 pages
...acute angles; an equiangular triangle• when its three angles are equal. 122. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides the legs. 123. The side on which a triangle is supposed to stand is called the base of the... | |
 | Arthur Wesley Chase - Mechanical drawing - 1904 - 200 pages
...an equiangular triangle, when its three angles are equal, see Figure 60. 8-J 83 In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides are called the legs, of the triangle. N Figure 58. Obtuse Triangle. QS Figure 59. Acute Triangle.... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Arithmetic - 1904 - 656 pages
...no two of its sides equal. FIG. 83. 54. A right-angled triangle (Fig. 24) is any triangle having one right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. A right-angled triangle is now usually called a right triangle. 55. In any triangle the sum of the... | |
 | Arthur Schultze - Algebra - 1905 - 396 pages
...square yards. Find the side of each field. 319. A right triangle is a triangle, one of whose angles is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse (c in the diagram). If the hypotenuse ' 6~ contains с units of length, and the two other sides respectively... | |
 | Arthur Schultze - Algebra - 1906 - 618 pages
...square yards. Find the side of each field. 319. A right triangle is a triangle, one of whose angles is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse (c in the diagram). If the hypotenuse ' ь~ contains с units of length, and the two other sides respectively... | |
 | Civil engineering - 1906 - 590 pages
...having no two of its sides equal. (Fig. 20.) 53. A right-angled triangle is any triangle having one right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. (Fig. 21.) A right-angled triangle may be isosceles or scalene. The altitude of any triangle is a line... | |
 | Charles Wilbur Leigh - 1906 - 72 pages
...triangle is a figure bounded by three straight lines. 311. A right-angled triangle lias one of its angles a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the "hypothenuse." The other two sides are the "base" and the "perpendicular." 312. The square of the hypothenuse... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry, Plane - 1908 - 208 pages
...triangle is a triangle which has a right angle ; as ABC, which has a right angle at C. The side AB opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides, AC and BC, the legs. B B 23. We define a circle as a portion of a plane bounded by a curve, called... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1908 - 336 pages
...triangle is a triangle which has a right angle ; as ABC, which has a right angle at C. The side AB opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides, AC and BC, the legs. 23. We define a circle as a portion of a plane bounded by a curve, called the... | |
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