isosceles
Speech parts
1. isosceles - Adjective
2. isosceles - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Having two legs or sides that are equal; -- said of a triangle.
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A concave bipyramid has a concave interior polygon. : The face-transitive regular bipyramids are the dual polyhedra of the uniform prisms and will generally have isosceles triangle faces.
An alternative approach defines isosceles triangles based on shared properties, i.e. equilateral triangles are a special case of isosceles triangles.
At about convert the male's dorsal fin is more than twice the size of the female's and is more of a triangular shape—a tall, elongated isosceles triangle —whereas hers is shorter and more curved.
An equilateral triangle has the same pattern on all 3 angles, an isosceles triangle has the same pattern on just 2 angles, and a scalene triangle has different patterns on all angles since no angles are equal.
A triangle that has two angles with the same measure also has two sides with the same length, and therefore it is an isosceles triangle.
For example, the isosceles triangle theorem states that if two sides of a triangle are equal then two angles are equal.