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Definition of Hypotenuse
Hypotenuse Hypotenuse Hy*pot"e*nuse, Hypothenuse Hy*poth"e*nuse, n. [L.
hypotenusa, Gr. ?, prob., subtending (sc. ?), fr. ? to
stretch under, subtend; ? under + ? to stretch. See
Subtend.] (Geom.)
The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the
right angle.
- In geometry, a hypotenuse is the side of a righttriangleopposite the right angle. It is the longest side of any such triangle; the two other shorter... - right triangle. It states that the area of the squarewhose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of... - turn or 90 degrees). The side opposite to the rightangle is called the hypotenuse (side c {\displaystyle c} in the figure). The sidesadjacent to the right... - side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that of the hypotenuse. For an angle θ {\displaystyle... - the hypotenuse of the priorrighttriangle (with length the square root of 2) and the other leg havinglength of 1; the length of the hypotenuse of this... - the angle to the hypotenuse. sin A = oppositehypotenuse = a h . {\displaystyle \sin A={\frac {\textrm {opposite}}{\textrm {hypotenuse}}}={\frac {a}{h}}... - side. RHS (right-angle-hypotenuse-side), also known as HL (hypotenuse-leg): If two right-angled triangles have theirhypotenusesequal in length, and a... - ratio of the hypotenuse to the sum of the legs, namely √2/2.: p. 282, p. 358 and the greatestratio of the altitude from the hypotenuse to the sum of... - a h {\displaystyle \sin \theta ={\frac {\mathrm {opposite} }{\mathrm {hypotenuse} }}={\frac {a}{h}}} cos θ = a d j a c e n t h y p o t e n u s e = b... - relationbetween the altitude on the hypotenuse in a righttriangle and the two line segments it creates on the hypotenuse. It states that the geometric mean...
