单词 | right-angular |
释义 | right-angularadv.adj. At right angles; so as to form a right angle. Cf. rightly adv. 6. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > position at right angles to something > [adverb] straightly1395 squarewise1546 directly1559 orthogonally?a1560 perpendicularly1570 rightly1594 square1631 rectangularly1646 right-angular1676 normally1869 squarely1873 1676 T. Binning Light to Art of Gunnery 141 Use thereto 18 or 20 Peeces, all Whole or Half-Cannon, and plant them so as they may shoot Right Angular, and cross one the other. 1687 tr. G. Brice New Descr. Paris 88 A magnifient Chamber after the Italian manner, whose Plason is opened Cupulo-wise, right Angular. 1793 F. Bischoff Treat. Extraction Cataract 42 Put in the point of the knife a little right angular. B. adj. Having, forming, or characterized by one or more right angles. Cf. rectangular adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [adjective] > constituting an angle > right > with parts or lines right-angled to each other right-cornered1551 right-angled?a1560 rectangled1570 rectanguled1636 rectangular1703 right-angular1704 rectangulate1852 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Construction Let therefore a Right Angular Triangle be made. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer 183 The right-angular fences, the heaps of pitched stones, the flourishing clover, announced the best husbandry. 1832 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Optical Instruments xvi. §110. 55 Four right angular prisms, having their refractive angles different and connected by pairs. 1850 T. Powell Living Authors of Amer. 322 An American fresh from the right-angular streets of Philadelphia and New York. 1921 M. Q. Burnet Art & Artists of Indiana iii. 46 Her forehead was singularly interlaced with right-angular lines. 2005 D. Cruickshank Around World in 80 Treasures 124 The city is organised around a right-angular grid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.adj.1676 |
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