Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Lacking sharp angles but not smoothly rounded; somewhat angular.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Slightly angular; bluntly angulated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slightly angular.
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- adjective geology Slightly
angular ; having ratherblunt angles
Etymologies
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Examples
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The coarse-grained friable sandstone, in which the lodges have been excavated, consists chiefly of subangular and rounded grains of quartz and feldspar with a small proportion of black particles.
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The glacial erosion of most of the Shasta lavas gives rise to detritus composed of rough subangular boulders of moderate size and porous gravel and sand, which yields freely to the transporting power of running water.
Steep Trails John Muir 1876
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These unstratified deposits consist mostly of quartz sand with numerous angular and subangular blocks of quartz and talcose schist.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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The angular and subangular stones that it contained were an irregular mixture of different varieties of trap, conglomerate, and schistose rocks.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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This clay was of a brown colour, and full of angular and subangular blocks of stone of all sizes up to nine feet in diameter.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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Flint-gravel, and whitish chalky sand, flints subangular, average size of fragments, 3 inches diameter, but with some large unbroken Chalk flints intermixed, cross stratification in parts.
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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The lateness of the season permitted only a brief ground check of the results but, on the Charles property, prospectors did find numerous glacially transported subangular boulders showing radioactivity above background.
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