right-angled
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a word derived from
right angle.
right anglenounthe angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.
Example Sentences
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As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.
From Space Scoop ● May 6, 2025
Leclerc and Sainz likened it more to the Baku track in Azerbaijan, with its long straights and right-angled corners and said Monaco was very different.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2023
Made up of right-angled kites, it was nothing like the gnarly, complicated kind of shape many mathematicians would have predicted.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 31, 2023
Richardson’s pictures usually began atop a right-angled grid, but there are many curves in his back catalogue.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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