right-angled
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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
Vessels must execute a sharp right-angled turn at the strait’s northern end, where the strong winds common in winter could strike a large ship broadside and blow it off course.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021
Keith Davis wrote a widely-used management textbook in 1957 that illustrated the theory in the form of a series of steps in a right-angled triangle leading to a peak.
From Scientific American • Apr. 27, 2019
It is a variation of the basic principle that if you know one angle and one side of an equilateral or right-angled triangle, then you can determine the other angles and sides.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
