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单词 hypotenuse
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hypotenusen.

/hʌɪˈpɒtənjuːs//hʌɪˈpɒtənjuːz//hɪˈpɒtənjuːs//hɪˈpɒtənjuːz/
Forms: (1500s–1600s hypothenusa, 1600s hypotenusa, hypotinusa), 1500s hipothenuse, 1600s– hypotenuse, hypothenuse.
Etymology: < late Latin hypotēnūsa, < Greek ὑποτείνουσα present participle (feminine), ‘stretching under, subtending’ (the full expression being ἡ τὴν ὀρθὴν γωνίαν ὑποτείνουσα (sc. γραμμή or πλευρά), the line or side subtending the right angle), < ὑπό under + τείνειν to stretch. In French hypoténuse. In the 16–17th cent. the Latin form hypotenusa was commonly used. The variant spelling with th (compare French ypothenuse, 1520) was apparently the more frequent in 19th-cent. use.
The side of a right-angled triangle which subtends, or is opposite to, the right angle.
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?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) ii. ii. sig. L iv v Ye squares of the two contayning sides ioyned togither, are equall to the square of ye Hypothenusa.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 55v They call the line Secant the Hipothenuse, because it subtendeth the right Angle A.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 734 The Power of the Hypotenuse in a Rectangular Triangle is Equal to the Powers of both the Sides.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 174 The Perpendicular, the Base, and the Hypotenusa.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Plain Sailing The Base of the Triangle represents the Departure; and the Hypothenuse the Distance Sailed.
1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Navigation i. i. 2 The side AB, opposite to the right angle, is called the hypotenuse.
1878 H. S. Wilson Alpine Ascents iv. 117 The hypothenuse of the angles.
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