Both Uses of
hypotenuse
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- You would not write your name in pencil across the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle.†
Chpt 5 *
- —No, said Lynch, give me the hypotenuse of the Venus of Praxiteles.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(hypotenuse) the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle