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单词 right angle
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Definition of right angle in English:

right angle

noun
  • An angle of 90°, as in a corner of a square, or formed by dividing a circle into quarters.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • For example there is a fairly straightforward method to trisect a right angle.
    • Give to a philosopher the concept of a triangle, and let him discover in his own way what the relation of the sum of its angles to a right angle might be.
    • Only later when I walked the whole of the Thames I found it wiggled and curved with no right angles.
    • One day at school we were told that if AB is a diameter of a circle, and C is any point on the circumference, then the angle ACB is a right angle.
    • The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
    • If your site includes any corners or other right angles, look for stone that already shows this shape.
    • Walls unexpectedly meet at acute and obtuse angles rather than commonplace right angles.
    • He discovered that the sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles and, when his father found out, he relented and allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid.
    • The double building in the right angle of the square is the Black Bull Hotel.
    • Zeno also attacked Euclid's proof of the equality of right angles on the grounds that it presupposes the existence of a right angle.
    • It's probably the same size as my current bedroom, but doesn't have the complete lack of right angles that makes my room a living hell to arrange furniture in, which is a plus.
    • The nurse extends the patient's arms on padded arm boards and positions the patient's elbows at right angles.
    • Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles.
    • They used two sticks in the form of a cross, viewing astronomical objects through the right angle formed by the sticks.
    • If you draw tangents at P and Q they are at right angles.
    • What we often don't realize is that, in some parts of the world even today, people are not accustomed to seeing straight lines and right angles.
    • If your walls are meeting at true right angles so that the room is a perfect square or rectangle, you can omit this step.
    • She's leaning, in the right of the photo, against a store's glass window that makes a right angle at the corner of the street.
    • He also designed an instrument to divide a right angle into a given number of equal parts.
    • It follows that on the earth's surface there is an equilateral triangle with all its angles equal to a right angle.
    Synonyms
    bend, joint, curve, corner, angle, crook

Phrases

  • at right angles (or a right angle) to

    • Forming an angle of 90° with (something)

      hold the brush at right angles to the surface
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Ball number six was nicely played back to the bowler amid the huge West Country sigh of relief, and then came the horrified realisation that the umpire's arm was at right angles to his body.
      • But this spectrum is at right angles to the first, generating a person-space with an infinity of different potential placements.
      • This should be set with the treadle (the trigger) at right angles to the wall, so that it can be approached from either direction.
      • A hundred yards away, a sorry looking BMW 6-series is parked at right angles to a motorway barrier, forming a makeshift roadblock.
      • A Ford Fusion, travelling towards Southend, was struck by the bike which had been travelling along a private road at right angles to that road.
      • He does it again and much more noticeably in the way he tilts numbers of squares of both kinds until one of them in the middle lies at right angles to all the others.
      • I guess its just that as you get older, things for some bizarre reason start to look better in alphabetical order, or at right angles to each other, or not all over your bedroom floor.
      • The Escort came to rest across two lanes at right angles to the traffic while the Laguna left the road, travelled down a grass slope and came to rest against some trees.
      • How many times in one day are the hands of a clock at right angles to each other?
      • The 23-year-old was arrested after police in a patrol car heard a scraping noise from his vehicle and looked out to see one of the wheels at right angles to the other.
 
 

Definition of right angle in US English:

right angle

nounˈˌrīd ˈˌaNGɡəlˈˌraɪd ˈˌæŋɡəl
  • An angle of 90°, as in a corner of a square or at the intersection of two perpendicular straight lines.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Huge cracks blemished the skis, the bindings were grotesquely twisted, and the poles bent at right angles.
    • If your walls are meeting at true right angles so that the room is a perfect square or rectangle, you can omit this step.
    • They used two sticks in the form of a cross, viewing astronomical objects through the right angle formed by the sticks.
    • It's probably the same size as my current bedroom, but doesn't have the complete lack of right angles that makes my room a living hell to arrange furniture in, which is a plus.
    • The double building in the right angle of the square is the Black Bull Hotel.
    • The nurse extends the patient's arms on padded arm boards and positions the patient's elbows at right angles.
    • The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
    • It follows that on the earth's surface there is an equilateral triangle with all its angles equal to a right angle.
    • Walls unexpectedly meet at acute and obtuse angles rather than commonplace right angles.
    • Zeno also attacked Euclid's proof of the equality of right angles on the grounds that it presupposes the existence of a right angle.
    • What we often don't realize is that, in some parts of the world even today, people are not accustomed to seeing straight lines and right angles.
    • For example there is a fairly straightforward method to trisect a right angle.
    • One day at school we were told that if AB is a diameter of a circle, and C is any point on the circumference, then the angle ACB is a right angle.
    • She's leaning, in the right of the photo, against a store's glass window that makes a right angle at the corner of the street.
    • He also designed an instrument to divide a right angle into a given number of equal parts.
    • He discovered that the sum of the angles of a triangle are two right angles and, when his father found out, he relented and allowed Blaise a copy of Euclid.
    • Give to a philosopher the concept of a triangle, and let him discover in his own way what the relation of the sum of its angles to a right angle might be.
    • If you draw tangents at P and Q they are at right angles.
    • Only later when I walked the whole of the Thames I found it wiggled and curved with no right angles.
    • If your site includes any corners or other right angles, look for stone that already shows this shape.
    Synonyms
    bend, joint, curve, corner, angle, crook

Phrases

  • at right angles (or a right angle) to

    • Forming an angle of 90° with (something)

      hold the brush at right angles to the surface
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But this spectrum is at right angles to the first, generating a person-space with an infinity of different potential placements.
      • How many times in one day are the hands of a clock at right angles to each other?
      • A Ford Fusion, travelling towards Southend, was struck by the bike which had been travelling along a private road at right angles to that road.
      • I guess its just that as you get older, things for some bizarre reason start to look better in alphabetical order, or at right angles to each other, or not all over your bedroom floor.
      • The Escort came to rest across two lanes at right angles to the traffic while the Laguna left the road, travelled down a grass slope and came to rest against some trees.
      • This should be set with the treadle (the trigger) at right angles to the wall, so that it can be approached from either direction.
      • Ball number six was nicely played back to the bowler amid the huge West Country sigh of relief, and then came the horrified realisation that the umpire's arm was at right angles to his body.
      • He does it again and much more noticeably in the way he tilts numbers of squares of both kinds until one of them in the middle lies at right angles to all the others.
      • The 23-year-old was arrested after police in a patrol car heard a scraping noise from his vehicle and looked out to see one of the wheels at right angles to the other.
      • A hundred yards away, a sorry looking BMW 6-series is parked at right angles to a motorway barrier, forming a makeshift roadblock.
 
 
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