verb tr.: 1. To position between two extremes, for example, in politics to appeal to both left and right wings; 2. a. To make triangular; b. To divide an area into triangles; c. To determine a location by measuring angles to it from known points; adjective: Composed of or marked with triangles. More...
:cornut: Boy that takes me back to my Army days. Triangulation/Radio Direction Finding. OH NO, they found us. Get out before Tach Air and Artillery start raining down on us!:eek6::lol: Jason
We use triangulation here in the shop when we are laying out all the bends for making duct work for square to rounds and various elbows from flat sheet..... Not many people know how to do the "old school" layout anymore...... But we do.....
I used it to to place (or fix) items in a crime scene sketch, in order to duplicate the scene if necessary. Jim
^^ Ah yes, the old "chalk outline" trick. Actually guns were tricky. They required three triangulated points, where almost everything else only needed two. Jim
:cornut: Nathan come up with some more good well rounded multiple obscure meaning words like this. This word covered military, orienteering, criminology, and engineering.............................GREAT! Brought all of our dark pasts slithering out of the caves.:lol::lol::lol::lol: Jason