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equilateral

The English word “equilateral” has 6 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Having all the sides equal.
  2. Having all the faces equal.
  3. Having the two sides equal, as a surface divisible by a longitudinal median line into two halves of the same form.
  4. Having all the convolutions of the shell in one plane, chiefly of foraminifers.

noun

  1. A side exactly corresponding, or equal, to others.
  2. A figure having all its sides equal.

Etymology

From equi- + lateral.

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