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æquilateral

æquilateral is the obsolete spelling of equilateral.

Meaning of equilateral

Adjective

equilateral (not comparable)

  1. Having all the sides equal.
    • Kissinger had wanted to keep an “equilateral” distance between the US, USSR and China. Under Carter, they became de facto partners.2025 April 12, Edward Luce, “The revenge of geopolitics”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2
  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.

See all 6 meanings of equilateral

Forms of æquilateral

pluralæquilaterals

Questions about æquilateral

What is æquilateral the obsolete spelling of?
Æquilateral is the obsolete spelling of equilateral.

Words near æquilateral in the dictionary

  1. æquiangular
  2. Æquians
  3. æquidistance
  4. æquidistances
  5. æquidistant
  6. æquilateral
  7. æquilaterals
  8. æquilibria
  9. æquilibrium
  10. æquinoctes
  11. æquinoctial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æquilateral (page history and authors); equilateral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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