单词 | in right angle |
释义 | > as lemmasin right angle 2. at right angles (also †in right angles, †in right angle): perpendicularly (to a line, plane, etc.); so as to form an angle of 90 degrees. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at right angles to something > at right angles [phrase] at right angles?a1425 in a square?a1560 by equiangles1593 in right angle1687 on (also upon) the square1883 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 15v Musclez bene made in þe wombe..viz,..2 latitudinalez fro þe backe vp þe wombe kuttyng þam bi þe middes of þe wombe at riȝt anglez. 1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria xxi. sig. Cc.iij His three diameters crosse them selues at right angles vpon the center of his spheres. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. ix. 205 The Sunne darts forth his Rayes at right Angles, which reflect backe vpon themselues. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 145 There are six figures on each side..and as many on the border in right Angle. 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant II. 216 Cottages,..the four Walls whereof are made of Pines, rang'd pointways in right Angles one upon another. 1746 Tom Thumb's Trav. Eng. 114 Most of the Streets..cut one another at Right Angles. 1804 G. Cayley in J. L. Pritchard Sir G. Cayley (1961) 220 An horizontal and vertical surface..intersecting each other in right angles to the air. 1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott III. iii. 128 [His] residence was then in George Street, situated very near to, and at right angles with, North Castle Street. 1890 Cent. Mag. May 51/2 Narrow black lines at right angles to the shaft of the feather. 1935 C. J. Smith Intermediate Physics (ed. 2) v. xlviii. 805 The arc lamp consists essentially of two carbon rods, generally at right angles to one another. 2005 Woodworker May 106/2 Two secret drawers which open at right angles to the outgoing deep drawers. < as lemmas |
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