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right-angle

a. (attributive of right angle lang=en nodot=1), ''noun''.

Usage examples of "right-angle".

When the sun or moon are at right-angles to each other in relation to the earth their pull is weakest and we get the smaller tides which are weaker and called neaps.

I would never have noticed the peculiar courses of the rivers, which had right-angle displacements to their courses along the more active fault lines, if Jack had not pointed them out to me as we flew over them in his private starship, XSS Scurra II.

The same line of bullets makes a sudden upwards right-angle turn when it reaches the wall of the General's house, climbs straight up the wall, tears out a chunk of the balcony's railing about a foot away from where the General's hand is resting, beats up a bunch of furniture back inside the house, and then clears the roof of the house and vanishes.

Because of the energy budget for matching orbits with the right-angle satellites, the crews were relieved only at six-month intervals, and they came back with a fortune in their pockets and a mad hunger for company.

An object attempting to pass through a planar field at a right-angle vector speed of more than the strike speed is faced with resistance which grows more intense as the fourth power of the velocity.

The last few feet involved an almost right-angle bend, but I managed to ease myself and the megger round it.

Roughly half a meter across, with a tendency to make right-angle turns in mid-course, it had early on been dubbed a butterfly… and in Petrol’s opinion they’d learned just about all that twenty minutes of passive observation could teach them about it.

Roughly half a meter across, with a tendency to make right-angle turns in mid-course, it had early on been dubbed a butterfly… and in Ferrol’s opinion they’d learned just about all that twenty minutes of passive observation could teach them about it.

With the incredibly complex reverse swing of the heavy weapon-around the back, a spin around the other arm-the indicated figure shouldered the weapon, gave a precise, slapping salute and with firm, military marching steps, pivoting on exact right-angle turns, marched to the door of the airlock, stepped into the tug and slammed the door.