Both Uses of
right angle
in
Moby Dick
- But far more terrible is it to behold, when fathoms down in the sea, you see some sulky whale, floating there suspended, with his prodigious jaw, some fifteen feet long, hanging straight down at right-angles with his body, for all the world like a ship's jib-boom.†
Chpt 73-75 *
- Two thick squares of wood of equal size are stoutly clenched together, so that they cross each other's grain at right angles; a line of considerable length is then attached to the middle of this block, and the other end of the line being looped, it can in a moment be fastened to a harpoon.†
Chpt 85-87
Definition:
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(right angle) an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)