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adjective

having an angle or angles.

consisting of, situated at, or forming an angle.

of, pertaining to, or measured by an angle.

Physics. pertaining to quantities related to a revolving body that are measured in reference to its axis of revolution.

bony, lean, or gaunt: a tall, angular man.

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acting or moving awkwardly.

stiff in manner; unbending.

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Also, angulose, angulous.

Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin angulāris having corners or angles, equivalent to angul(us) angle¹ + -āris -ar¹

Related forms

an·gu·lar·ly, adverb

an·gu·lar·ness, noun

in·ter·an·gu·lar, adjective

sem·i·an·gu·lar, adjective

sub·an·gu·lar, adjective

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sub·an·gu·lar·ly, adverb

sub·an·gu·lar·ness, noun

un·an·gu·lar, adjective

un·an·gu·lar·ly, adverb

un·an·gu·lar·ness, noun

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Antonyms
1. curved. 5. rotund. 6. graceful.

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Today's pick: sharp-winged boots as angular and outstanding as the clothes they carried.

Shut-off would imply repeal of the law of conservation of angular momentum.

To put this angular size into more familiar terms, note.

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Today's pick: sharp-winged boots as angular and outstanding as the clothes they carried.

Shut-off would imply repeal of the law of conservation of angular momentum.

To put this angular size into more familiar terms, note.

Rim weights and axle technologies now exploit the physics of angular momentum to make possible all sorts of tricks.

Yet its angular bones give it a commanding presence.

M edium-size to large shrubs, sometimes treelike, usually with spreading habit and angular or zigzag branches.

Conservation of angular momentum with a bullet hitting a merry go round.

Pite has embellished her early reputation with quirky, angular dances that embrace the awkward and the beautiful in equal.

Visual acuity indicates the angular size of the smallest detail a person's visual system can resolve.

We see some angular blocks out several hundred feet in front of us that are probably two feet in size and have angular edges.

Conservation of angular momentum explains why an ice skater spins more rapidly as she pulls her arms in.

Plants vary greatly in habit: some are low and spreading, others compact and bushy, still others upright and angular.

Since the angular momentum is constant, this means your angular velocity will increase.

Hines's strong right hand and angular melodic ideas continued to sound contemporary throughout his career.

Pictured is a reticulated giraffe, which has large, angular spots.

However, the radius of the orbit will also be larger and the net result is that the angular motion is comparatively slower.

Mexican weeping bamboo, and yucca, soften the angular design.

The angular momentum changes in the direction of the torque.

Dainty pointed shoes with angular heels make the clothes cute and desirable.

Pictured is a reticulated giraffe, which has large, angular spots contrasting against bright white lines.

The shiny metal sphere stands in contrast to the dozens of angular red follies that dot the.

Besides throwing a curve into the usually angular vegetable garden, it saves space and is less likely to topple in wind.

To make these pictures useful for physics, it helps to know the angular size of the picture.

She had a sharp, angular face, a hooked nose and she had a strong chin.

Sit inside at angular stainless steel tables, or outside on a shady terrace.

The instrument's angular resolution is adjusted simply by moving the antennas closer together or farther apart.

Choose ones that are angular enough to be stackable but rounded enough that they won't poke holes in your liner.

The meter stick is also constant in it's angular motion.

Both feature angular figures, made of straight lines and zigzags.

His face is elongated and angular with a long chin.

Spiral arms remove angular momentum from the center of the.

Angular planting beds flank the backyard patios, and low, blocklike walls serve as artistic elements as well as seating.

Also, this is the angular location of the first bright spot to the side.

Much credit must be given his devotion to line, angular and sinuous.

Yet the angular figure, crowned by a red watch cap, became something more than the grand old man of the sea.

The angular velocity of stars is remarkably constant across the galactic radius.

Tree is quite angular and open when young but forms more add to my plant list.

The angular bodywork, also inspired by fighter jets, is made carbon fiber and carbon reinforced plastic.

The researchers are not sure what drives this angular disparity.

It's not only lighter, thanks to the lack of a battery pack, it's also slimmer and slightly more angular.

If this weren't true then conservation of angular momentum and causality itself wouldn't exist.

For the murderer, he chooses an angular face and an athletically built body.

The diminishment of this universal angular momentum in the current universe may simply allow the production of antimatter.

It's an angular funk nugget with a crunchy coating of rock.

The mistake is that the astronomers by autistic mathematics have mixed up orbital speed and angular velocity.

The shape of its many angular surfaces helps to redirect radar waves away from their source.

While collectively they must conserve linear and angular momentum, that can be satisfied by an infinity of different states.

The new tech gets information from an angular velocity sensor, kind of similar to the iPhone's accelerometer.

And while your up throw a few degrees on the angular momentum.

For instance, blind drivers reported they preferred the feel of a round car versus an angular one.

Our capacity to interpret aphorisms comes from the angular gyrus.

The top button is slightly more angular and feels grippier.

Their angular momentum is carried by spacetime vortices concentrated near the axis of rotation.

It is fixed by the requirement for zero orbital angular momentum in the first hydrogen orbit.

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World English Dictionary

angular (ˈæŋɡjʊlə)

—*adj*
1.	lean or bony
2.	awkward or stiff in manner or movement
3.	having an angle or angles
4.	placed at an angle
5.	measured by an angle or by the rate at which an angle changes

[C15: from Latin angulāris, from angulusangle¹]

'angularly

—*adv*

'angularness

—n

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Word Origin & History

angular

1590s, from L. angularis "having corners or angles," from angulus (see angle (n.)).

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"We want some coat woven of elastic steel, stout as the first, and limber as the second. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit. An angular, dogmatic house would be rent to chips and splinters, in this storm of many elements. No, it must be tight, and fit to the form of man, to live at all; as a shell is the architecture of a house founded on the sea."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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