oblique angle

American  

noun

1. an angle that is not a right angle; an acute or obtuse angle.

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oblique angle British  

noun

1. an angle that is not a right angle or any multiple of a right angle

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Other Word Forms

• oblique-angled adjective

Etymology

Origin of oblique angle

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

More and more, I like to come at my fiction from an oblique angle so I can get into the world of the story and its moods without being too heavy handed.

From Los Angeles Times

Hold the phone far from your face and at an oblique angle to minimize the strength of the light.

From Seattle Times

The photographs in “Journeys,” mostly from the 1970s, feature sharply oblique angles, grainy surfaces and subjects — largely women and children — turned away from their viewers.

From New York Times

These simulations confirmed the scientists' suspicions about the oblique angle of impact and determined the composition of the impactor.

From Science Daily

Yet at noon, often the hottest time of the day, the sun's rays enter vertically installed windows at oblique angles.

From Science Daily