angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăng'gəl
ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/
ipa: /ˈeɪŋ.ɡəl/
ipa: /ˈeɪŋ.ɡl̩/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: angles
Etymology: From Middle English angle, angul, angule, borrowed from Middle French angle, from Latin angulus, anglus (“corner, remote area”). Cognate with Old High German ancha (“nape of the neck”), Middle High German anke (“joint of the foot, nape of neck”). Doublet of angulus and ankle.
Senses: examples: text: the angle between lines A and B
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle).
examples: text: The angle between lines A and B is π/4 radians, or 45 degrees.
text: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
ref: 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The measure of such a figure. In the case of a plane angle, this is the ratio (or proportional to the ratio) of the arc length to the radius of a section of a circle cut by the two rays, centered at their common point. In the case of a solid angle, this is the ratio of the surface area to the square of the radius of the section of a sphere.
examples: text: an angle of a building
glosses: A corner where two walls intersect.
examples: text: The horse took off at an angle.
glosses: A change in direction.
examples: text: In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
ref: 2013 January 23, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 64:
text: For example, if I was trying to repitch an idea to a producer who had already turned it down, I would say something like, "I remember you said you didn't like my idea because there was no women's angle. Well, here's a great one that both of us must have missed during our first conversation."
ref: 2005, Adams Media, Adams Job Interview Almanac, page 299:
glosses: A viewpoint; a way of looking at something.
topics: media
glosses: The focus of a news story.
glosses: Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A storyline between two wrestlers, providing the background for and approach to a feud.
examples: text: His angle is that he gets a percentage, but mostly in trade.
glosses: An ulterior motive; a scheme or means of benefiting from a situation, usually hidden, often immoral.
examples: text: though but an angle reached him of the stone
ref: 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the four cardinal points of an astrological chart: the Ascendant, the Midheaven, the Descendant and the Imum Coeli.
Synonyms: sense: corner
word: corner
sense: corner
word: nook
sense: change in direction
word: swerve
sense: vertex
english: as per hexagon
translation: as per hexagon
word: -gon
sense: viewpoint
word: opinion
sense: viewpoint
word: perspective
sense: viewpoint
word: point of view
sense: viewpoint
word: slant
sense: viewpoint
word: view
sense: viewpoint
word: viewpoint
Hyponyms: acute angle
angle of repose
Batman angle
central angle
complementary angle
conjugate angle
dihedral angle
explementary angles
exterior angle
interior angle
narrow angle
oblique angle
obtuse angle
opposite angle
plane angle
right angle
round angle
solid angle
straight angle
supplementary angle
vertical angle
wide angle
Derived terms: word: acute-angled
word: adjacent angle
word: advance angle
word: angle bar
word: angle bead
word: angle bisector
word: angle brace
word: angle bracket
word: angledozer
word: angle for
word: angle for farthings
word: anglegram
word: angle grinder
word: angle harp
word: angle iron
word: angle leaf
word: angleless
word: angle level
word: anglemeter
word: angle of attack
word: angle of depression
word: angle of elevation
word: angle of His
word: angle of incidence
word: angle of Louis
word: angle of reflection
word: angle of refraction
word: angle of repose
word: angle of torsion
word: angle of vanishing stability
word: angle of view
word: angle parking
word: anglepoise
word: angle quote
word: angles and dangles
word: angle shaft
english: angle shoot
translation: angle shoot
word: angle-shoot
english: angle shooter
translation: angle shooter
word: angle-shooter
english: angle shooting
translation: angle shooting
word: angle-shooting
word: angle shot
word: angle stealer
word: angle stealing
word: angle tie
word: anglewing
word: anglewise
word: base angle
word: biangle
word: bond angle
word: Bragg angle
word: Brewster's angle
word: camber angle
word: camera angle
word: canted angle
word: carpal angle
word: circular angle
word: complete angle
word: conjugate angle
word: corresponding angle
word: crab angle
word: crank angle
word: crank angle degree
word: critical angle
word: dead angle
word: decangle
word: deck angle
word: diangle
word: dihedral angle
word: double angle quotation mark
word: double angle quote
word: downflooding angle
word: Dutch angle
word: eigenangle
word: equiangle
word: Euler angle
word: facial angle
word: first angle projection
word: first-angle projection
word: full angle
word: gastric angle
word: gyroangle
word: heptangle
word: horn angle
word: hyperbolic angle
word: internal angle
word: launch angle
word: Mach angle
word: minute of angle
word: multiangle
word: MySpace angle
word: Myspace angle
word: narrow-angle
word: narrow-angle lens
word: Northwest Angle
word: obtuse-angled
word: octangle
word: phase angle
word: play the angles
word: polyangle
word: pseudoangle
word: Q angle
word: quinquangle
word: reangle
word: reference angle
word: reflex angle
word: renal angle
word: semiangle
word: septangle
word: sexangle
word: single angle quote
word: spherical angle
word: staff angle
word: stall angle
word: sternal angle
word: third-angle projection
word: third angle projection
word: torsion angle
word: vertex angle
word: Virchow's angle
word: visual angle
word: what's one's angle
word: wide-angle
Related terms: word: angular
word: angulate
word: angulation
word: pentangle
word: quadrangle
word: rectangle
word: triangle
sense: Terms of interest
word: arcminute
sense: Terms of interest
word: arcsecond
sense: Terms of interest
word: degree
sense: Terms of interest
word: gradian
sense: Terms of interest
word: radian