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Ninety degree corner
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right angle
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Continue folding at a right angle to the end of strip. ▪ Pluto's right angle to Mercury insists a bright new day is dawning. ▪ Window eaves and roof gutters curve in organic efficiency rather than follow a mechanical right angle ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the 90 degree angle between two perpendicular lines [ant: oblique angle ] a quarter of the circumference of a circle [syn: quadrant ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In geometry and trigonometry , a right angle is an angle that bisects the angle formed by two adjacent parts of a straight line. More precisely, if a ray is placed so that its endpoint is on a line and the adjacent angles are equal, then they are right ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angle \An"gle\ ([a^ ng]"g'l), n. [F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor.] The inclosed space near the point ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geometry English) Half of the angle formed by a single straight line, equivalent to 90 degrees. 2 (context mathematics English) An ∟ character.
Usage examples of right angle.
That was why he couldn't line the capsule up at the right angle and that was why he couldn't fire the retro-rockets right on the button….
He worked along to a right angle in the bank which the men had made in the course of mining, and in this angle he came to bay, protected on three sides and with nothing to do but face the front.
The passage beyond was as narrow as a slit, leading off at a right angle.
On two other sides, forming a right angle, were high walls to which several junipers clung like coiling dragons with tenacious claws, embedded in the riven rock.
It had an image enlarger in it, and when held at the right angle the picture inside could be seen clearly.
On the other side, towards the eastward, the ramparts were discernible, running in a straight line of some length, until they suddenly turned inwards at a right angle and were concealed from further observation by the walls of a distant palace and the pine trees of a public garden.
The lower leaves of the plant are large and spreading -thickly covered with hairs, something like the form of the Dandelion leaf, except that the numerous lateral segments or lobes are in general direction about at a right angle with the central stem, instead of pointing downwards, as in similar portions of the leaf of the Dandelion.
By this latter time a sixth radicle had become bent at a right angle from the side bearing the square.
One geometrical fact known to the Egyptians was that if a triangle be constructed having its sides 3, 4, and 5 units long respectively, then the angle opposite the longest side is exactly a right angle.
I brought my hardest right angle into violent collision with the Stranger, pressing on him with a force sufficient to have destroyed any ordinary Circle: but I could feel him slowly and unarrestably slipping from my contact.
The elbow is bent at a right angle and tucked against the rib cage.