at right angles
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For instance, latitudes and longitudes meet at right angles on the Earth’s surface, so they appear as a nice rectangular grid on the Mercator map.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
Under normal conditions, these cells divide mainly at right angles to the ventricular surface.
From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025
At LIGO, Hanford vacuum tubes extend for 2.5 miles at right angles across previously unused Hanford site shrub steppe land near the Tri-Cities.
From Seattle Times • May 29, 2023
With the tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun positioned at right angles during the equinox, the magnetic field is stronger resulting in a more vibrant aurora.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2023
Thus imaginary numbers are in a sense numbers at right angles to ordinary real numbers.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
