Usually means: Triangle with all sides different.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word scalene:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalene: Merriam-Webster
  2. scalene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scalene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scalene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scalene: Vocabulary.com
  6. scalene: Wordnik
  7. scalene: Wiktionary
  8. scalene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scalene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scalene: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scalene: Dictionary.com
  12. scalene: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Scalene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Scalene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. scalene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. scalene: Rhymezone
  17. Scalene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. scalene: FreeDictionary.org
  19. scalene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. scalene: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Scalene: World Wide Words
  22. scalene: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scalene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. scalene: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scalene: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  2. scalene: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See scalenes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (scalene)

adjective:  (trigonometry) Having sides all unequal in length.
adjective:  (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the scalene muscle.
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of scalene muscle.. [(anatomy) Any of usually three deeply situated muscles on each side of the neck of which each extends from the transverse processes of two or more cervical vertebrae to the first or second rib.]
noun:  (trigonometry) Ellipsis of scalene triangle.. [(geometry) A triangle having each of its three sides of different lengths.]

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