TRINGLE. In architecture, a name common to several little square members or ornaments, as reglets, listels, and platbands. It is more particularly used for a little member fixed exactly over every triglyph, under the platband of the architrave; from whence hang down the guttæ or pendent drops.
Tringle, Fr. A wooden rule.
TRINGLER, Fr. To draw a strait line upon wood by means of a stretched piece of packthread, or cord that is chalked.
TRINOME, Fr. A word used among the French, in algebra, to express any quantity which is produced by the addition of three numbers or quantities that are incommensurable.
TRINOMIAL, or Trinomial root, in mathematics, is a root consisting of three parts, connected together by the signs + or -, as x + y + z, or x - y - z.
TRINQUET, Fr. A word used in the Levant to signify the mizen or foremast of a ship.
TRINQUETTE, Fr. A sail used on board the ships in the Levant, which is of a triangular shape.
TRIOMPHE, Fr. See [Triumph].
Arc de Triomphe, Fr. A triumphal arch.
TRIPASTE, Fr. A machine which consists of three pullies, and is used in raising of heavy weights.