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RIGHT ANGLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 90 degree angle between two perpendicular lines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("right angle" is a kind of...):
angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)
Meronyms (parts of "right angle"):
grad; grade (one-hundredth of a right angle)
Antonym:
oblique angle (an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle)
Context examples:
An object that is comprised of six regular, solid, congruent square faces and has three equal axes at right angles to each other.
(Cube, NCI Thesaurus)
Field of force associated with a moving electric charge and consisting of electric and magnetic fields that are generated at right angles to each other.
(Electromagnetic field, NCI Thesaurus)
“Cross-laminated timber is a popular choice of timber construction material. It’s made by gluing together layers of sawn timber, each at a right angle to the layer below,” said Shah.
(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)
An imaginary great circle on the surface of a heavenly body passing through the poles at right angles to the equator.
(Longitude, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of plane angle measurement equal to 1/400 circle, 0.01 right angle, 0.9 degree, or 0,01570796 rad.
(Gon, NCI Thesaurus)
By this means he ironed the yoke, wristbands, and neckband, setting the latter at right angles to the shirt, and put the glossy finish on the bosom.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Their houses are very ill built, the walls bevil, without one right angle in any apartment; and this defect arises from the contempt they bear to practical geometry, which they despise as vulgar and mechanic; those instructions they give being too refined for the intellects of their workmen, which occasions perpetual mistakes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He worked along to a right angle in the bank which the men had made in the course of mining, and in this angle he came to bay, protected on three sides and with nothing to do but face the front.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Their road to this detached cottage was down Vicarage Lane, a lane leading at right angles from the broad, though irregular, main street of the place; and, as may be inferred, containing the blessed abode of Mr. Elton.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Then, approaching at right angles to the trail and cutting off his retreat they saw a dozen wolves, lean and grey, bounding across the snow.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
