Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not forming an angle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not forming an angle.
- adjective (Physics) an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geometry Lacking an
angle . - adjective cartography, navigation Having a magnetic deviation of zero.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, "without") + γωνία (gōnia, "angle").
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Examples
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You'll remember that Caillois was of the opinion that most solitary games were agonic, played with the imagination of a community of similarly situated players.
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Is it too obvious to remark that this clearly is not an accident of fate or an act of god, but an intentional in both the agonic and philosphical/phenomenological senses act?
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