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trigon

1

[ trahy-gon ]

noun

  1. a triangle.
  2. an ancient Greek stringed instrument with a triangular shape.
  3. Astrology Archaic.


trigon.

2

abbreviation for

  1. trigonometric.
  2. trigonometrical.
  3. trigonometry.

trigon

/ ˈ³Ù°ù²¹ÉªÉ¡É’²Ô /

noun

  1. (in classical Greece or Rome) a triangular harp or lyre
  2. an archaic word for triangle
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trigon1

1555–65; < Latin ³Ù°ù¾±²µÅ²Ô³Ü³¾ triangle < Greek ³Ù°ùí²µÅ²Ô´Ç²Ô, noun use of neuter of ³Ù°ùí²µÅ²Ô´Ç²õ three-angled. See tri-, -gon
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trigon1

C17: via Latin from Greek ³Ù°ù¾±²µÅ²Ô´Ç²Ô triangle. See tri- , -gon
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Thus we speak of a pentagon but not of a tetragon or a trigon, although both words are correct in form.

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Thus, when the three superior planets met in Aries, Leo, or Sagittarius, they formed a fiery trigon; when in Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, a watery one.

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In Figure 74 is a trigon, the angles at its centre being 120, and the angle at the circumference being 60, as marked.

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The fourth conjunction in this trigon took place in 1663, in Sagittarius, again opposite to the ascendant of London.

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Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.

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