obliquity
Example Sentences
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Such a slouch, or obliquity, gives us our seasons.
From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023
It’s not a question of subtlety, which the stage can accommodate, but obliquity, which feels like an evasion of theater’s confrontational power.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2021
Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019
Although it does not possess a high obliquity, its elliptical orbit massages the moon’s interior, thanks to Jupiter’s gravitational pull.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019
The second course, which crosses the first, and in most double cuts is finer, is called the up-cut, and has a horizontal obliquity varying from 5° to 15°.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
