a position for traversing a slope in which the skis are edged into the hill by bending the knees toward the hill and leaning the upper body away from the hill, with all weight on the downhill ski
Word origin
[1865–70; angulate + -ion]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: batting average, goulash, racism, springboard, valence-ion is a suffix, appearing in words of Latin origin, denoting action or condition, usedin Latin and in English to form nouns from stems of Latin adjectives (communion; union), verbs (legion; opinion), and esp. past participles (allusion; creation; fusion; notion; torsion)