Right-angle Sentence Examples

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  • The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought.

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  • Barry Robson followed this up with a tame shot wide from the right angle of the penalty area.

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  • Fold the right flap along the point to make a right angle.

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  • The difference between an acute angle and a right angle is termed the complement of the angle, and between an angle and two right angles the supplement of the angle.

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  • It lacks the protective aspect of a sheltering wall, but at the right angle and location could could still work beautifully and the little bit it loses in protection it gains in ease of access.

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  • Some people like to use metal right angle brackets inside the cold frame to better hold the side panels together.

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  • South of Resht this section is broken through at almost a right angle by the Safid Rud (White river),and along it runs the principal commercial road between the Caspian and inner Persia, Resht-Kazvin-Teheran.

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  • Thus if d,/ is the increase of 4, due to a displacement from P to P', and k is the component of velocity normal to PP', the flow across PP' is d4 = k.PP'; and taking PP' parallel to Ox, d,, = vdx; and similarly d/ ' = -udy with PP' parallel to Oy; and generally d4,/ds is the velocity across ds, in a direction turned through a right angle forward, against the clock.

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  • The curves 0 = constant and 4, = constant form an orthogonal system; and the interchange of 0 and 4, will give a new state of uniplanar motion, in which the velocity at every point is turned through a right angle without alteration of magnitude.

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  • The conception of the right angle is strengthened, by contrast, by the use of bricks in the form of a rhombus.

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  • In the other gap are pivoted two coils wound on an iron core and connected at nearly a right angle to each other.

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  • Kb(30s, a cube), in geometry, a solid bounded by six equal squares, so placed that the angle between any pair of adjacent faces is a right angle.

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  • To the west of Parr's Ridge the surface for the most part slopes gently down to the east bank of the Monocacy river (which flows nearly at a right angle with the streams east of the Ridge), and then from the opposite bank rises rapidly toward the Catoctin Mountain; but just above the mouth of the Monocacy on the east side of the valley is Sugar Loaf Mountain, which makes a steep ascent of 1250 ft.

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  • Following Euclid, a right angle is formed by a straight line standing upon another straight line so as to make the adjacent angles equal; any angle less than a right angle is termed an acute angle, and any angle greater than a right angle an obtuse angle.

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  • The east and west walls should run parallel to each other, and at right angles to that on the north side, in all the most favoured localities; but in colder or later ones, though parallel, they should be so far removed from a right angle as to get the sun by eleven o'clock.

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  • For the negative of the operator which turns a line through a given angle in a given plane will in all cases produce the negative of the original result, which is not the result of the reverse operator, unless the angle involved be an odd multiple of a right angle.

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  • If these lines be turned through a right angle in the same sense, they take up positions such as CC, DID, where C, D are on JC, JD, respectively, and CD is parallel to CD.

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  • The instantaneous centre of CD will be at the intersection of AD, BC, and if CD be drawn parallel to CD, the lines CC, DD may be taken to represent the virtual velocities of C, D turned each through B a right angle.

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  • Between the latter and the confluence with the Araguay, the Tocantins is occasionally obstructed by rocky barriers which cross it almost at a right angle.

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  • Pappus in his commentary on Apollonius states that these names were given in virtue of the above relations; but according to Eutocius the curves were named the parabola, ellipse or hyperbola, according as the angle of the cone was equal to, less than, or greater than a right angle.

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  • The latter is defined by the condition that its plane makes a right angle with the earth's axis of rotation.

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  • Not that she'd miss the right angle hell that made her edgy, but blowing up someone's home?

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  • I'd guess that they are the ones that have nailed their Burberry baseball hats on, to keep them at the right angle.

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  • The extension bracket is a flat plate with a double right angle formed across the middle.

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  • The legs should form a right angle with the trunk at the hips.

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  • Therefore, as of now, I'm going to make the right angle my friend rather than view it as a limitation.

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  • If we are given a right-angle triangle of sides measuring 2 inches x 2 inches, what is the length of the Hypotenuse?

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  • Leaving the right angle out of consideration, the sides including the right angle, the complement of the hypotenuse, and the complements of the other angles are called the circular parts of the triangle.

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  • Not only did the Russians not fortify the position on the field of Borodino to the left of, and at a right angle to, the highroad (that is, the position on which the battle took place), but never till the twenty- fifth of August, 1812, did they think that a battle might be fought there.

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  • Therefore, as of now, I 'm going to make the right angle my friend rather than view it as a limitation.

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  • There is the 3, 4, 5, right angle triangle on the clay tablet.

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  • You will want to sit in a chair that is at the proper height, meaning that your thighs are at a right angle to the floor so the guitar sits balanced and won't slip off onto the floor.

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  • Drive at a right angle to the tornado until you are out of its path.

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  • If you wear this type of reader to see the screen, you could experience neck strain from the effort it takes to hold your head at the right angle.

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  • When the wing is spread, its long axis is more or less at a right angle to the body axis.

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