Pythagorate Edit Meaning

1.

to cut across the diagonal rather than follow perpendicular sides, saving distance and usually time

Those ugly brown paths are caused by students who pythagorate across the grass.

You'll save twenty miles and half an hour if you pythagorate up the turnpike instead of taking 35 and 75, you cheapskate.

See pythagorize, beeline, pythagoras

2.

To apply the Pythagorean theorum to any right triangle

Now that we have two of the sides of the triangle, we can pythagorate it to find the third one!

See triangles, math, trigonometry, geometry

1.

to cut across the diagonal rather than follow perpendicular sides, saving distance and usually time

Those ugly brown paths are caused by students who pythagorate across the grass.

You'll save twenty miles and half an hour if you pythagorate up the turnpike instead of taking 35 and 75, you cheapskate.

See pythagorize, beeline, pythagoras

2.

To apply the Pythagorean theorum to any right triangle

Now that we have two of the sides of the triangle, we can pythagorate it to find the third one!

See triangles, math, trigonometry, geometry