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| across |
so as to pass over at an angle, as one line crossing over another. [1/5 definitions] |
| acute |
an angle of less than ninety degrees. [1/4 definitions] |
| acute angle |
an angle of less than ninety degrees. |
| angle1 |
to move at an angle. [2/4 definitions] |
| angle iron |
a piece of rolled iron or steel in the form of a right angle along its lengthwise dimension, used in construction for joining parts or as support. |
| angle of incidence |
the angle that the line of movement of a body or of radiation, meeting a surface, makes with a line that is at right angles to the surface at the point of meeting. |
| angle of repose |
the greatest angle of incline at which sand, stones, soil, or the like will not slide or roll downhill. |
| arris |
in architecture, the edge, ridge, or line made when two surfaces meet at an angle, as in a molding. |
| askew |
out of line; at an angle. [1/2 definitions] |
| axil |
the upper angle between a leaf, flower, twig, or the like, and the stem or branch from which it grows. |
| azimuth |
in gunnery or surveying, the angle of sideways divergence from a standard path or direction, as of a bomb or shell. [1/2 definitions] |
| bend |
to cause something that was straight to have the shape of a curve or angle. [2/4 definitions] |
| bevel |
the angle, other than a right angle, at which one line or surface intersects another. [3 definitions] |
| bevel gear |
a gear with teeth angled or beveled so that it meshes with another gear whose shaft is at an angle of less than 180 degrees to its own shaft. |
| canthus |
the angle formed at either side of the eye at the juncture of the upper and lower eyelids. |
| clinometer |
an instrument used to measure the angle of an incline. |
| complement |
in geometry, the difference between a right angle and a given angle that is less than ninety degrees. [1/7 definitions] |
| corner |
the place where two lines or surfaces meet to form an angle. [1/5 definitions] |
| cosecant |
in trigonometry, the secant of the complement or the reciprocal of the sine of a given angle or arc. |
| cotangent |
in trigonometry, the ratio between the side adjacent to a given acute angle in a right triangle and the opposite side. |
| cowlick |
a small, protruding section of hair that grows in a whorl or at a different angle than the rest. |
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