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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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231 words match “ANGULAR”

QUINQUANGULAR a.

Having five angles or corners.

Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r, adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.

RECTANGULARITY n.

The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.

SEXANGLED; SEXANGULAR a.

Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] Dryden.

SEXANGULARLY adv.

Hexagonally. [R.]

Slightly angular.

SUBPENTANGULAR a.

Nearly or approximately pentangular; almost pentangular.

SUBTRIANGULAR a.

Nearly, but not perfectly, triangular. Darwin.

SUPRA-ANGULAR a.

See Surangular.

SURANGULAR a. 2 definitions

Above the angular bone; supra-angular; -- applied to a bone of the lower jaw in many reptiles and birds. -- n.

TRIANGULAR a. 2 definitions

Oblong or elongated, and having three lateral angles; as, a triangular seed, leaf, or stem. Triangular compasses, compasses with three legs for taking off the angular points of a triangle, or any three points at the same time. -- Triangular crab (Zoöl.), any maioid crab; -- so called because the carapace is usually tr…

TRIANGULARES n.

The triangular, or maioid, crabs. See Illust. under Maioid, and Illust. of Spider crab, under Spider.

TRIANGULARITY n.

The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.

TRIANGULARLY adv.

In a triangular manner; in the form of a triangle. Dampier.

TRIRECTANGULAR a.

Having three right angles. See Triquadrantal.

ADDISON'S DISEASE n.

n, and thought, at one time, to be due to disease of the suprarenal capsules (two flat triangular bodies covering the upper part of the kidneys), but now known not to be dependent upon this causes exclusively. It is usually fatal.

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

d, as leaves, singly at different heights of the stem, and at equal intervals as respects angular divergence. Gray. Alternate alligation. See Alligation. -- Alternate angles (Geom.), the internal and angles made by two lines with a third, on opposite sides of it. It the parallels AB, CD, are cut by the line EF, the an…

term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions. Magnetic amplitude, the angular distance of a heavenly body, when on the horizon, from the magnetic east or west point as indicated by the compass. The difference between the magnetic and the true or astronomical amplitude (see 3 above) is the "variation…