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right angles

n. (right angle English)

Usage examples of "right angles".

The alternating ends of the logs in the front and side walls of the house were notched and interlocked together so that they stuck out like the tips of the fingers of two hands, interlaced at right angles to each other.

He had his hands on his knees, with his elbows out at right angles, like a nigger minstrel of the old school about to ask Mr.

The leaves are arranged in pairs on the stem, each pair being at right angles to the pair it succeeds.

I call it a box so that you may understand what I'm talking about, but a box by definition has six sides set at right angles.

I tore a part of the hem from the robe and placed the fragment at full length, and at right angles to the wall.

The leaves are placed in pairs on the stem, each pair at right angles to the pair below it.

Although I couldn't see any in the gloom, the ropes must have been knotted at regular intervals to enable the two men who were paying them out to keep the iron bar at right angles to the barge's passage through the water.

A few days' ride on camel-back to the southwest, as Shevatas knew, would bring the traveller within sight of the great river Styx at the point where it turned at right angles with its former course, and flowed westward to empty at last into the distant sea.