triangulate

Other forms of triangulate

past tense

triangulated·

present participle

triangulating·

third person

triangulates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about triangulate

What does triangulate mean?

triangulate means "divide into triangles or give a triangular form to". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in triangulate?

triangulate has 4 syllables and divides as tri-an-gu-late under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is triangulate a common word?

triangulate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.