trine

Example Sentences

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For example, when two planets are in harmony, they could be trine to one another, which is when they are 120 degrees apart.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Clinton and her running mate Tim Kaine, in contrast, have their suns making a trine – an angle of 120 degrees.

From The Guardian • Oct. 12, 2016

While Metzger is conservative on matters of doc trine, he is willing to avoid male nouns and pronouns�where the original Hebrew and Greek texts allow it.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the men who made it believed in the doc trine that there are many "rights" anterior to government, and that these rights belong to all the people.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Baptismal Formula.—The trinitarian formula and trine immersion were not uniformly used from the beginning, nor did they always go together.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various