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Meanings of oblique angle in English

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angle oblic

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

angle oblic
Usage of oblique angle in English
1
He set off at an oblique angle, heading for healthy forest.
Worlds of Honor
2
They approached the house at an oblique angle from the woods.
Once bitten, twice dead
3
I was looking out at an oblique angle toward the church.
Harvest Home
4
He cocked his head at a sharp, oblique angle, chin tilted slightly downward.
Shadow fall
5
The bed stood again, bisected, at an oblique angle, in her dressing-table mirror.
Flesh and blood
6
Line estimates made at an oblique angle differed significantly from estimates made at other angles.
Pubmed
7
Larraín comes at Pablo Neruda from an oblique angle.
The Irish Times
8
All identical, built in a tight line, running away from me at an oblique angle.
Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
9
They skirted the edge of the wooded area, approaching the front entryway at an oblique angle.
Once bitten, twice dead
10
The two stars are rising at an oblique angle to the pole-star, the center around which, material things revolve.
The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — ...
11
As in Lanthimos's early Dogtooth, we are in a world that exists at an oblique angle to our own.
The Irish Times
12
However, Lady Ethelrida just caught the picture of her through an oblique angle, against a background of French panelling.
The Reason Why
13
Several times we used our slanting fins, which internal levers could set at an oblique angle to our waterline.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of th...
14
Projected at an oblique angle without backspin, a football usually bounces backward, if the top end points backward on impact.
The Irish Times
15
A small hut had been erected against the side of the rock, in a manner that presented an oblique angle.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
16
The Man With a Movie Camera was both a culmination of that project and a shift at an oblique angle.
The Irish Times
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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