biangle
/ˈbaɪˌæŋɡəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A digon or bigon; a two-sided shape (especially in non-Euclidean geometry)
Example Sentences
- "If n planes be drawn through any axis of the right-vector, each of which makes angles π/n with the planes on either side of it, the whole of space is divided into n congruent figures which may be called biangles, the space between any two adjacent planes being easily seen to be continuous with the vertically opposite space between them."
- "Then the right biangle CABD and the oblique biangle CPND are equivalent since the triangles API and BNI are congruent."
- "It is therefore natural to consider whether precisely this concept of a straight line, with which Kant¹¹ too was familiar, is the reason why Kant in the one passage says that the concept of a straight biangle is free of contradiction."
Etymology
From bi- + angle.