 | William Herschel Bruce, Claude Carr Cody (Jr.) - Geometry, Modern - 1910 - 284 pages
...side, the base of the triangle. RECTILINEAR FIGURES. Right. Obtuse. Acute. 80. A right triangle has one right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides, the legs. 81. An obtuse triangle has one obtuse angle. 82. An acute triangle... | |
 | Frank Elliott Mathewson, Judson Lloyd Stewart - Mechanical drawing - 1911 - 176 pages
...equal. A scalene triangle has all three sides unequal. A right-angled triangle has one of its angles a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. An obtuse-angled triangle has one of its angles greater than a right angle. An acute-angled triangle... | |
 | Henry John Spooner - Geometrical drawing - 1911 - 196 pages
...(Gr. scahnos, " uneven ") has none of its sides equal (Fig. 568). A Right- Angled Triangle contains a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse (Gr. hypo, " under " or " beneath ; " and teino, " to stretch "). one of the other sides is called... | |
 | Clara Avis Hart, Daniel D. Feldman - Geometry - 1912 - 504 pages
...Isosceles Equilateral TRIANGLES CLASSIFIED WITH RESPECT TO ANGLES 96. Def. A right triangle is a triangle which has a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. The other two sides are spoken of as the sides f of the triangle. 97. Def. An obtuse triangle is a... | |
 | Arthur Schultze - 1910 - 338 pages
...square yards. Find the side of each field. 228. A right triangle is a triangle, one of whose angles is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypoteb nuse (c in the diagram). If the hypotenuse contains с units of length, and the two other sides... | |
 | George Morris Philips, Robert Franklin Anderson - Arithmetic - 1913 - 520 pages
...obtuse triangles. RightTriangle Acute Triangle Obtuse Triangle 433. (1) A right triangle is a triangle which has a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. (2) An acute triangle is a triangle whose angles are all acute. (3) An obtuse triangle is a triangle... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel - Arithmetic - 1913 - 144 pages
...sides of the same length. Figure 21. Figure ±i. 35. A right-angled triangle is any triangle having one right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. A rightangled triangle is now usually called a right triangle. (See Fig. 21.) The other two sides are... | |
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - Arithmetic - 1917 - 352 pages
...PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM 139. The Pythagorean theorem. — A right triangle is a triangle of which one angle is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides are called the legs. By drawing a right triangle whose legs are 3 in. and 4 in.... | |
 | John Charles Stone - Mathematics - 1919 - 232 pages
...120 ft. by 300 ft.? 4. THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM A right triangle is a triangle of which one angle is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other sides are called the legs. By drawing a right triangle whose legs are 3 in. and 4 in.,... | |
 | Joseph Antonius Nyberg - 1924 - 378 pages
...I) 2 = 17 - 14 x THE PYTHAGOREAN EQUATION 233. A right triangle is one in which one of the angles is a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides are called arms. The symbol for the word triangle is A ; thus A.ABC means the... | |
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A right-angled triangle is one which has a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypothenuse. 
