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

The church is not a sect organized around a particular doc trine or Biblical text.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Trinity cannot be called trine; otherwise there would be nine realities in God; which, of course, is erroneous.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint