Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having, forming, or consisting of an angle or angles.
- adjective Measured by an angle or by degrees of an arc.
- adjective Bony and lean; gaunt.
- adjective Lacking grace or smoothness; awkward.
- adjective Rigid, stiff, and unyielding in character or disposition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In astrology, placed in one of the four angles of a nativity.
- noun In ichthyology, a small bone on the lower posterior corner of the articulare: same as
angular bone . - Having an angle or angles; having corners; pointed: as, an angular figure; an angular piece of rock; angular writing (that is, with the turns sharply pointed instead of curved).
- Consisting of an angle; forming an angle: as, an angular point.
- Measured by an angle; subtending an angle; having a divergence expressed in degrees, minutes, and seconds: as, angular distance; angular velocity.
- Of persons: Having or exhibiting protuberances of joint or limb; acting or moving awkwardly or as if in angles.
- Stiff in manner; cranky; crotchety; unbending.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed.
- adjective Measured by an angle.
- adjective Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character
- adjective See
Aperture ,Distance . - adjective the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body.
- adjective the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex.
- adjective the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.
- noun (Anat.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to an
angle or angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner;sharp-cornered ;pointed ; as in, an angular figure. - adjective Measured by an angle; as in, angular distance.
- adjective
Lean ,lank , raw-boned. - adjective
Ungraceful . - adjective figuratively
Sharp andstiff in character - noun anatomy A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- adjective having angles or an angular shape
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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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.
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1821 [a machine-readable transcription] 1821
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Roughly speaking, an electron spins like a top, i.e. it possesses spin angular momentum.
And the Physics Nobel Prize goes to… « Skulls in the Stars 2007
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And water is usually used to absorb any impact felt as a result in angular momentum change.
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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 Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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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 Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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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 Stone Monkey Jeffery Deaver 2002
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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.
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001
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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.
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The angular velocity t is usually called angular frequency w 1) in electrical engineering and it is written as
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Particularly important were the connections to and from an area of the brain known as the angular gyrus.
Scientists Locate Literacy In The Brain « Blogs « Literacy News 2009
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