vertical angle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of vertical angle
First recorded in 1565–75
Example Sentences
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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 glare of the sun that is reflected from each point of the surface of a mirror forms a cone of light whose vertical angle is constant, and equal to that subtended by the sun.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Galton, Francis, Sir
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