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
The whirling swarm with its double heart of iron approached the impact point from the north-northwest at 20 to 31 miles a second, and at a vertical angle of about 30�.
From Time Magazine Archive
The long, slender, simple columella is not only lateral, but occupies indeed the sharp vertical angle of the triangular, prismatic sporangium.
From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)
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