स्क्वायर इज़ इक्वल इन वैशाली सेक्टर लिस्ट राइट एंगल शो डेट द स्क्वायर एंड ट्रायंगल हैव वन एंगल कमिंस शो डेट ऑफ बर्थ ऑफ द स्क्वायर अपोजिट वर्ड फॉर बीकॉम इन एंगल बाईसेक्टर आफ न्यूज़
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Examples of hypotenuse in a Sentence
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When the triangle has a right angle, the square of the hypotenuse is always equal to the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides.
— Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, "Finally, Software That Turns Confusing Math Equations Into Simple Images," 2 June 2020
The triangle has a base 4 units long, a vertical side 3 units long and a hypotenuse 5 units long going from upper left to lower right.
— Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘Natural Law and Elegant Math’," 17 Jan. 2020
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First Known Use of hypotenuse
1594, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for hypotenuse
earlier hypothenusa, hypothenuse, borrowed from Latin hypotēnūsa, borrowed from Greek hypoteínousa, noun derivative (with grammḗ "line" or pleurá "side" understood) from feminine of hypoteínōn, present participle of hypoteínein "to stretch under, put under, subtend," from hypo- HYPO- + teínein "to stretch, extend" — more at TENANT entry 1
NOTE: The nominal use of hypoteínousa in Greek is apparent in passages such as the following, from the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus of Naucratis (10.13), where "line/lines" or "side/sides" are understood: "Apollódōros dè ho arithmētikòs kaì thûsaí phēsin autòn hekatómbēn epì tôi eurēkenai hóti trigṓnou orthogōníou [he] tḕn orthḕn gōnían hypoteínousa íson dýnatai taîs periechoúsais…." ("And Apollodorus the Calculator says that he [Pythagoras] even sacrificed a hecatomb when he discovered that in a right-angled triangle the [square of the] line subtending ("hypoteínousa") the right angle is equal to [the square of] the lines embracing it.)"