spherical triangle

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   a spherical polygon formed by the arcs of 3 great circles

   Broaderspherical polygon

Questions about spherical triangle

What does spherical triangle mean?

spherical triangle means "a spherical polygon formed by the arcs of 3 great circles".

Is spherical triangle a common word?

spherical triangle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.