Angular
having an or .
consisting of, situated at, or forming an .
of, relating to, or measured by an .
Physics. pertaining to quantities related to a revolving body that are measured in reference to its axis of revolution.
bony, lean, or gaunt:
a tall, angular man.
acting or moving awkwardly.
stiff in manner; unbending.
Contemporary Examples
You, too, will be zipping along to the angular guitars and zigzagging, herky-jerky vocals.
The 10 Best Albums of 2014: Taylor Swift, Sia, Run the Jewels, and More Marlow Stern December 27, 2014
Traditional coach seats gave the illusion of comfortable padding but were angular, not reflecting body shapes.
Flying Coach Is the New Hell: How Airlines Engineer You Out of Room Clive Irving November 24, 2014
The sniping hasn’t been limited to Roitfield’s aggressive, angular fashion sense.
Carine Roitfeld’s Shocking Exit Jacob Bernstein December 16, 2010
Maier, a tall and slender man with an angular face, was born in Germany in 1957 and studied fashion in Paris.
Subtle Sophistication: Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier Robin Givhan October 22, 2012
He made some fitful attempts to calm down a bit, filling modest, collage-like monochromatic surfaces with angular shapes.
Death of a Modernist Master Simon Schama July 5, 2011
Historical Examples
This glazing is quite hard, and breaks up into angular pieces.
Our Common Insects Alpheus Spring Packard
His listening attitude had a sort of angular and sorrowful grace.
The Secret Agent Joseph Conrad
Anglique was tall and thin like her father, skinny and angular like him.
The Confessions of Arsne Lupin Maurice Leblanc
Bertheroy was a tall and lean septuagenarian, with angular features.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Emile Zola
Placing himself in an angular position on the thwart, with his right hand hold of the seat, he began to row with his left.
Brother Against Brother Oliver Optic
adjective
lean or bony
awkward or stiff in manner or movement
having an angle or angles
placed at an angle
measured by an angle or by the rate at which an angle changes
adj.
1590s, from Latin angularis “having corners or angles,” from angulus (see angle (n.)). Earlier in an astrological sense, “occupying a cardinal point of the zodiac” (late 14c.). Angulous “having many corners” is from mid-15c.
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- Angular acceleration
the time rate of change of angular velocity of a rotating body. Historical Examples To find the angular acceleration A, draw kt, bt respectively parallel to and at right angles to the link KB. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 8 Various Similarly, if a body is rotated round a vertical axis, we perceive […]
- Angular cheilitis
angular cheilitis angular cheilitis n. Inflammation and radiating fissures at the corners of the mouth, secondary to predisposing factors such as overclosure of the jaws in denture wearers, nutritional deficiencies, atopic dermatitis, or Candida albicans infection. Also called commissural cheilitis, perlèche.
- Angular artery
angular artery angular artery an·gu·lar artery (āng’gyə-lər) n. An artery that is the terminal branch of the facial artery, distributed through the muscles and skin of the side of the nose, having anastomoses with the lateral nasal and dorsal arteries of the nose and the palpebral arteries from the ophthalmic artery. See artery of angular […]
- Angular deformation
angular deformation angular deformation A change in the shape of a body, generally due to sheer stress, such that a straight line connecting two points within the body before the deformation is not parallel with a straight line connecting them after the deformation.
- Angular diameter
the angle that the apparent diameter of a celestial object subtends at the eye of the observer. Historical Examples Its angular diameter at mean distance is 31′ 5″, or, say, just over ½°. The Story of the Solar System George F. Chambers The constant, 220, is the reciprocal of the quotient of the angular diameter […]