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

The Monroe Doc trine, he said, is dead, and should be buried "so that it should not poison the air by its decay."

From Time Magazine Archive

The last definite vestige of a foreign policy which this nation has exhibited was the enunciation of the Monroe Doc trine.

From Time Magazine Archive

It has a peculiar set of trine leaves which Linnæus noticed and named it for—modern botanists have no notion of it.

From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by Ruskin, John