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Triangulation
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Triangulation
The practice of verifying results using multiple tests. In geometric terms, an unknown third point can be determined with one known side and two known angles
Lab medicine A popular term for the use of two or more tests to evaluate one condition
Surgical oncology A method for localising the exact position of a breast lesion by a guide wire of a lesion of the breast, based on 3 parameters: position, depth of penetration, and wire angle

triangulation,
n a methodological approach in qualitative research used to integrate, verify, and interpret data derived from many different sources, including interviews.

triangulation (trīang´ylā´shn),
n a wedge-shaped area between the root surface and alveolar crest that permits the passage of radiographic rays.

triangulation
Oncology A method for determining the exact position of a breast lesion localized by a guide wire of a lesion of the breast, based on 3 parameters: position, depth of penetration, wire angle. See Guided wire open biopsy. Cf Stereotactic biopsy.


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The listing is alphabetical by city, and the publications are indexed by title; the third dimension--date--often needed by historians must be triangulated from those.
He'd heard that cellular phones could be triangulated to narrow their location to a few miles, and he asked authorities to try that approach.
Fig: 5 show a triangulated point cloud data with a hole, some cross sectional plane for the hole and Fig: 6 show the cross sectional data obtained from one cross sectional plane.
 
 
 
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