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oblique angle

noun

  1. an angle that is not a right angle; an acute or obtuse angle.


oblique angle

noun

  1. an angle that is not a right angle or any multiple of a right angle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • o·blique-angled adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oblique angle1

First recorded in 1685–95
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Example Sentences

More and more, I like to come at my fiction from an oblique angle so I can get into the world of the story and its moods without being too heavy handed.

Hold the phone far from your face and at an oblique angle to minimize the strength of the light.

The photographs in “Journeys,” mostly from the 1970s, feature sharply oblique angles, grainy surfaces and subjects — largely women and children — turned away from their viewers.

These simulations confirmed the scientists' suspicions about the oblique angle of impact and determined the composition of the impactor.

Yet at noon, often the hottest time of the day, the sun's rays enter vertically installed windows at oblique angles.

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