right-angled
Example Sentences
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The Baku street circuit is notorious for creating incident - its combination of long straights and tight, right-angled corners are bounded by walls, so mistakes tend to be punished.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.
From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025
Richardson’s pictures usually began atop a right-angled grid, but there are many curves in his back catalogue.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023
Other tools are conversions to green left-turn arrows, and yellow centerline curbs that protrude into the crossing, so drivers choose a slow, right-angled path.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Pythagoras had learned the triangle theorem—that the length of the third side of a right-angled triangle can be deduced mathematically from the length of the other two sides—from Indian or Babylonian geometers.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
