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A delightful spin which makes a point
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acute angle
Word definitions for acute angle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Acute \A*cute"\, a. [L. acutus, p. p. of acuere to sharpen, fr. a root ak to be sharp. Cf. Ague , Cute , Edge .] Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse ; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf. Having nice discernment; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees
Usage examples of acute angle.
I hoped it wasn't a compound fracture, but it was an unreasonable hope: at that acute angle the snapped bone could hardly have failed to pierce the skin.
Looking over the pilot's shoulder, he sees a pair of paved airstrips in the flat paddy-land just south of the city, crossing at an acute angle to form a narrow X.
The arms dangle in front and, moving repeatedly forward and backward, they draw an acute angle with its vertex between the legs (figs.
The thought flashed across me that I might have before me a burglar or cut- throat, some monstrous Irregular Isosceles, who, by feigning the voice of a Circle, had obtained admission somehow into the house, and was now preparing to stab me with his acute angle.
Somehow he was crawling, crawling along a tilted surface until he gained the well where the ladder to the lower section hung, now at an acute angle.
With the M-4000 ready, the Armorer wheeled it around so that he was approaching the far side of the derrick from an acute angle.
Had it been a bridge crossing some gently meandering stream, then, yes, possibly: but not a bridge such as this one was, a fifty-foot bridge surfaced with untied railway sleepers, spanning a ravine two hundred feet in depth and supported by trestles, very ancient wooden trestles which, from what little he could see of them from his acute angle of approach, he wouldn't have trusted to support the tables at the vicar's garden party.