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单词 right-angular
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right-angularadv.adj.

Brit. /ˌrʌɪtˈaŋɡjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˌraɪdˈæŋɡjələr/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: right adj., angular adj.
Etymology: < right adj. + angular adj., after right angle n. With use as adverb compare slightly earlier right-angularly adv., and also earlier at right angles at right angle n. 2. With use as adjective compare earlier right-angled adj.
A. adv.
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).
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