angular
IPA: ˈæŋgjʌɫɝ
noun
- (anatomy) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
adjective
- Relating or pertaining to an angle, or angles.
- Having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner.
- Sharp-cornered; pointed.
- Measured by an angle.
- Lean, lank.
- Ungraceful; lacking grace.
- (figuratively) Sharp and stiff in character.
- (organic chemistry) Composed of three or more rings attached to a single carbon atom (the rings not all being in the same plane).
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Examples of "angular" in Sentences
- Roughly speaking, an electron spins like a top, i.e. it possesses spin angular momentum.
- And water is usually used to absorb any impact felt as a result in angular momentum change.
- Particularly important were the connections to and from an area of the brain known as the angular gyrus.
- The angular velocity t is usually called angular frequency w 1) in electrical engineering and it is written as
- This referred to the angular marks left in the soft lead bullet by the rifling in the barrel of the gun—the spiral grooves that spin the slug to make it go faster and more accurately.
- The He'e Nalu line comprises strong, modern designs including circles, stars, hearts and angular forms, bearing a Hawaiian word or kanji on one side and its English equivalent on the reverse.
- Ionic capitels for columns whose lower diam. is 30 I. & dimind diam. 26 ½ to be copied from those of the temple of Fortuna virilis in Palladio. observing that the two middle capitel shew volutes in front and back and ballusters in their flanks and the two corner capitels are what he calls angular, that is to say presenting Volutes in their front & outer flank, and ballusters in their back and inner flank. see Palladio.
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