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Bermuda Triangle en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. (broadly, figuratively) A confusing, chaotic place or situation where objects mysteriously disappear or things go wrong.
   • The dryer is a Bermuda Triangle for socks.
   • The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect. 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Mars Ruins Codex entry:

Forms

Deriveds

Bermuda Triangled

Translations (7)

sl Bermudski trikotnik (any area where things mysteriously disappear) · ru Берму́дский треуго́льник (any area where things mysteriously disappear) · tr Bermuda Şeytan Üçgeni (any area where things mysteriously disappear) · fi Bermudan kolmio (any area where things mysteriously disappear) · pt sumidouro (any area where things mysteriously disappear) · pl trójkąt bermudzki (any area where things mysteriously disappear) · fr Triangle des Bermudes (any area where things mysteriously disappear)

Bermuda Triangle en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. An area of the Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes have disappeared under allegedly mysterious circumstances.
   • According to the ‘business as usual’ school of modern historians, the millennial preoccupations of Glaber and Wulfstan hold no more significance than the jeremiads of the gullible and doom-laden who agonise in every society - the medieval equivalents of believers in UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, and the X files. 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 187:

Forms

Deriveds

Pacific Bermuda Triangle · Bermuda Triangled

Relateds

Graveyard of the Atlantic · Dragon's Triangle · Nevada Triangle

Synonyms

Triangle · Devil's Triangle

Translations (21)

cmn 百慕大三角 (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · fr Triangle des Bermudes (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · ja バーミューダトライアングル (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · th สามเหลี่ยมเบอร์มิวดา (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · es Triángulo de las Bermudas (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · de Bermudadreieck (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · pt Triângulo das Bermudas (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · de Bermuda-Dreieck (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · hu Bermuda-háromszög (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · uk Берму́дський трику́тник (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · sv Bermudatriangeln (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · it Triangolo delle Bermuda (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · pl Trójkąt Bermudzki (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · ga Triantán Bheirmiúda (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · tr Bermuda Şeytan Üçgeni (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · mn Бермудын гурвалжин (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · nl Bermuda Driehoek (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · bg Берму́дски триъ́гълник (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · ru Берму́дский треуго́льник (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · fi Bermudan kolmio (area in the Atlantic Ocean) · el τρίγωνο των Βερμούδων (area in the Atlantic Ocean)