Both Uses of
right angle
in
A Passage to India
- It is sensibly planned, with a redbrick club on its brow, and farther back a grocer's and a cemetery, and the bungalows are disposed along roads that intersect at right angles.†
Chpt 1right angles = angles measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
- The roads, named after victorious generals and intersecting at right angles, were symbolic of the net Great Britain had thrown over India.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)