Sentence examples for four-sided figure from inspiring English sources

The right and left trapezius together form a trapezium, an irregular four-sided figure.

Rather, elephants are one kind of animal, and squares are one kind of four-sided figure.

The concepts 'regular diamond' and 'regular square', or simply two occurrences of 'that shape', one for each way of seeing the four-sided figure; the concepts 'augmented fourth' and 'diminished fifth' in the case of the interval; and the concepts 'row' and 'column' in the case of the dots.

In the three putative examples of single properties that are represented in different ways (the four-sided figure, the middle C/F-sharp interval, and the arrangement of dots), there are (according to Peacocke) multiple concepts in the vicinity that pick out the same shape, interval, or arrangement.

Every four-sided shape can also tile the plane.

The main sail on this sloop rig became the popular three-sided shape.

This need for observation cannot be circumvented by writing existence into the definition of the concept ("an existing three-sided plane figure," "an existing unsurpassably perfect being"), for the need arises again as the question of whether this enlarged concept is instantiated.

I mentioned a tetrapylon, a four-sided arch that would span two streets.

These pieces are four-sided, which means that she can illustrate different aspects of a personality.

The metal weather maps on the large four-sided drums somehow looked larger that night.

In this sense one might call the figure "four-sided" rather than "three-sided," but in no sense whatever a "triangle," except by an abuse of the term.