† trient Obs.
[ad. L. triens, trient-em third part.]
a. The ancient Roman copper coin called triens: see prec. b. An angle of 120°, comprising one-third of the circumference of a circle; in Astrol. = trine B. 2 (also adj. = trine A. 2).
| 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 24 When they are asunder 120 degrees, which is called a triangle, Trygon, or Trient aspect. 1601 [see triens]. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 160* Three ounces..or at most a trient, that is four ounces. 1657 Physical Dict., Trient, a third part. 1673 Wallis in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 570 If the angle be more than a trient, and less than two trients, whose subtendant..I suppose to be the chord of a trient increased by one of the arches. |