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right-angled

  • a word derived from right angle.
    right angle
    noun
    the 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°.

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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