vertical angle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vertical angle
First recorded in 1565–75
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Video captured by a local mining company showed the plane hurtling nose first toward the ground at an almost vertical angle.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2022
The 61-year-old limo driver converted a mobile home into a ramp and modified it to launch from a vertical angle so he wouldn't fall back to the ground on public land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2018
The 61-year-old limo driver converted a mobile home into a ramp and modified it to launch from a vertical angle so he wouldn’t fall back to the ground on public land.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 25, 2018
He was diving at a near vertical angle.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sides do not come quite up to the corner of the vertical angle iron, excepting at the bottom where the horizontal angle iron comes in.
From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by David Allan Low
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