• angle
• = (fr. L. akin to OE, ankle) the figure formed by two lines extending from the same point or by two surfaces diverging from the same line
• = the precise viewpoint from which something is observed or considered
• = an often improper or illicit method of obtaining advantage
• triangle
• = a situation involving love of two persons of one sex for one of the opposite sex with the resulting complications
• triangulation
• = the measurement of the elements necessary to determine the network of triangles into which any part of the earth's surface is divided in surveying; broadly, any trigonometric operation for finding a position or location by means of bearings from two fixed points a known distance apart.
• triangular
• = of, relating to, or involving three elements
• trigonometric function
• = a function of an arc or angle most simply expressed in terms of pairs of sides of a right-angled triangle

The lowest common denominator of two names is the simplest common name that brackets them both. as, this fish, that fish: they are salmon; or this salmon, that salmon: fish.

We can see the symmetry or the hinge on which these names turn. Two points forming a base from which to triangulate the other unknown point. An inference. Deduction, deduction, an induction, operations resolved into a process. And if we reverse the procedure, induction reduced to deduction and deduction. These are observed identities undergoing generalization. At what point naming and recognition change into induction and generalization, we can judge. It depends on the context. These are logical distinctions; they do not prevail as such in practice. You do not, for instance, when confronted with "read", go R,E,A,D that means "read".

©Laurie Ashton, 1999
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