Morley triangles
Morley triangles is the plural of Morley triangle.
Meaning of Morley triangle
Noun
Morley triangle (plural Morley triangles)
- Any of a number of triangles described in Morley's trisector theorem, especially the equilateral triangle formed from the points of intersection of adjacent angle trisectors of a given triangle.
- Show that the sides of the Morley triangle of T (cf. 10.3.10) lie on three of those lines (notice that each vertex of the Morley triangle is the center of a cardioid lying inside T and tangent to all its sides, one of them twice.)2009, Marcel Berger, Geometry I, page 276
- Synonyms:
- equilateral triangle formed by intersection points of adjacent trisectors
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- Morley triangles is the plural of Morley triangle.
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