adjacent angles

American  

plural noun

Geometry.

1. two angles having the same vertex and having a common side between them.

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adjacent angles British  

plural noun

1. two angles that have the same vertex and a side in common

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Example Sentences

“The fact that it’s a hexagon, we did algebra and geometry, we cut along the hypotenuse to create the roof panels, we talked about opposite adjacent angles and all that stuff. So it was just some math concepts. And then we put it together, and we had a really cool structure.”

From Washington Times

Definition 10 says, “When a straight line set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the equal angles is right, and the straight line standing on the other is called a perpendicular to that on which it stands.”

From Scientific American

Some of these terms, such as magnitudes, curve line, broken line, curvilinear figure, bisector, adjacent angles, reflex angles, oblique angles and lines, and vertical angles, need merely a word of explanation so that they may be used intelligently.

From Project Gutenberg

It might well be further reduced, since it includes the proposition about two adjacent angles formed by one line meeting another, and the one about the circle as the limit of the inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons.

From Project Gutenberg

When a straight line set up on a straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the equal angles is right, and the straight line standing on the other is called a perpendicular to that on which it stands.

From Project Gutenberg