Examples of “triangulation” in a Sentence

noun A method of finding an unknown location or distance using angles measured from known points.

• A special advantage of radar is that it works during darkness and other periods of low visibility, which prevent visual triangulation and aircraft techniques for measuring nuclear clouds. — , News Notes: Army Weather Radar Tracks Nuclear Clouds (1958)
• Cell towers use triangulation to estimate a phone's location.

noun (figurative, politics) The strategy of positioning oneself between two opposing sides to appeal to the middle ground.

• Critics called the policy shift a classic case of political triangulation.