Definition of Oblique angle

1. Noun. An angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle.

Generic synonyms: Angle
Specialized synonyms: Acute Angle, Obtuse Angle
Antonyms: Right Angle

Definition of Oblique angle

1. Noun. (geometry) Any angle that is not a right angle or multiple of right angles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oblique Angle

obliger
obligers
obliges
obliging
obligingly
obligingness
obligingnesses
obligor
obligors
oblimersen
obliquation
oblique
oblique-swimming triplefin
oblique-swimming triplefins
oblique amputation
oblique angle
oblique angles
oblique arch
oblique arches
oblique arytenoid
oblique auricular muscle
oblique bandage
oblique bridge
oblique bundle of pons
oblique case
oblique cases
oblique circle
oblique circles
oblique cord
oblique diameter

Literary usage of Oblique angle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Academician,: Containing the Elements of Scholastic Science, and the by Albert Picket, John W. Picket (1820)
"This rectilinear angle is said to be an oblique angle, because it is not a ... This oblique angle is smaller than a right angle. As this oblique angle is ..."

2. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey: Made Under the by United States Department of the Interior, William Hemsley Emory, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Charles Frederic Girard, Timothy Abbott Conrad, George Engelmann, James Hall, Charles Christopher Parry, Arthur Carl Victor Schott, John Torrey (1859)
"... and producing one of the most remarkable features on the face of the globe—that of a river traversing at an oblique angle a chain of lofty mountains, ..."

3. Sherwin's Mathematical Tables: Contriv'd After a Most Comprehensive Method ...by Henry Sherwin by Henry Sherwin (1761)
"Add the Co-tangent of one oblique angle to the Co-tangent of the other oblique ... Add the Radius to the Co-fine of either oblique angle, and from the fum ..."

4. Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms Used in Architecture, Civil, Architecture by John Weale (1850)
"Oblique, in geometry, aslant; not direct ; not perpendicular nor parallel Oblique angle, one that is greater or less than a right angle Oblique-angled ..."

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