of a triangle
: having the three sides of unequal length see triangle illustration
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Surgery for the injury involves removal of the first rib and two small scalene muscles and scar tissue around the affected nerves, according to the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2021
The third leg of the scalene triangle is the capped I-91.
—Tom Condon, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2021
There's enough punch up and down the tach to regularly exercise the traction control as well as your scalene muscles.
—Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2020
The elliptical motion of those legs, combined with its scalene triangle body shape, given the machine inherent stability.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2017
Using an exercise from the DAoM book Games and Puzzles, Strogatz handed each of his students a pair of scissors, as well as a piece of paper with a scalene triangle drawn in the middle of it.
—Jessica Lahey, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2014
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Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2021
The third leg of the scalene triangle is the capped I-91.
—Tom Condon, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2021
There's enough punch up and down the tach to regularly exercise the traction control as well as your scalene muscles.
—Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 2 Oct. 2020
The elliptical motion of those legs, combined with its scalene triangle body shape, given the machine inherent stability.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2017
Using an exercise from the DAoM book Games and Puzzles, Strogatz handed each of his students a pair of scissors, as well as a piece of paper with a scalene triangle drawn in the middle of it.
—Jessica Lahey, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2014
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scalene
adjective
sca·lene
ˈskā-ˌlēn 
skā-ˈlēn
: having sides that are each a different length
a scalene triangle
Medical Definition
scalene
1 of 2 adjective
sca·lene
ˈskā-ˌlēn, skā-ˈ
: of, relating to, or being a scalenus muscle
scalene
2 of 2 noun
: scalenus
called also scalene muscle
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