DH sign question

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Lee Storm \(God Is The Healing Force\)" <n2fgc at ...> wrote:

> The basic elemental shape of the sign is triangular, as 
> I understand it.


zanooda:

Oh, yes, I know that it is triangular. I can see now from your responses guys (thanks, BTW :-)) that I didn't pose the question correctly, sorry about that. I meant to ask something like this: "Is such an interpretation (three-part object) possible at all?" I mean, regardless of the shape :-). If, theoretically speaking, the sign was a square, with a circle and a line inside, could it be called "triangular sign" because it consists of three elements? The question is about the meaning of the word and its use, mostly :-).

I came across this word in a translation and I was very surprised, because, as I said, I didn't even know such a meaning existed. Well, I corrected it to "triangular shaped" and sent it back, but it kept bothering me that I was unfamiliar with this meaning of the word while the translator obviously was :-). The examples in the dictionaries are mostly about relationships, something like "mother-father-child triangular relationship". The dictionaries say it can be used for objects as well, but there are no examples.

So I wanted to find out if the translator could be right in principle, if not in this particular case. Note that he used this meaning not in the description of the sign (there it's definitely about the shape), but in an expression "to find out the meaning of the triangular sign" or something like that. I know that the author meant the shape here as well, I just wanted to find out if it's even possible to interpret it another way or not at all. Sorry again that I confused you all earlier :-).