All 4 Uses of
right angle
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- The North Star was directly in the wind's eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the meridian.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Charles's Wain was getting towards a right angle with the Pole star, and Gabriel concluded that it must be about nine o'clockâin other words, that he had slept two hours.†
Chpt 4-6
- Bathsheba, without looking within a right angle of him, was conscious of a black sheep among the flock.†
Chpt 10-12
- A heated breeze from the south slowly fanned the summits of lofty objects, and in the sky dashes of buoyant cloud were sailing in a course at right angles to that of another stratum, neither of them in the direction of the breeze below.†
Chpt 34-36
Definition:
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(right angle) an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)