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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
Laura Haddock

Meaning of "at right angles" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AT RIGHT ANGLES

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AT RIGHT ANGLES

at one´s back
at one´s elbow
at one´s fingertips
at one´s heels
at one´s leisure
at one´s wits´ end
at peace
at present
at random
at rest
at risk
at sea
at second hand
at short notice
at sight
at sixes and sevens
at someone´s beck and call
at someone´s feet
at someone´s hand
at source

WORDS THAT END LIKE AT RIGHT ANGLES

adjacent angles
alternate angles
beer goggles
goggles
shingles
similar triangles
singles
strangles
the giggles
vertical angles
vertically opposite angles

Synonyms and antonyms of at right angles in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «at right angles» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AT RIGHT ANGLES

Find out the translation of at right angles to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of at right angles from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «at right angles» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

直角
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en ángulos rectos
570 millions of speakers

English

at right angles
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सही कोण पर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

في زوايا الحق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

под прямым углом
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

perpendicularmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডান কোণে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

perpendiculairement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pada sudut yang betul
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

senkrecht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

直角
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

직각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing sisih tengen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ở góc bên phải
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வலது கோணங்களில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उजव्या कोनावर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dik açılarda
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

perpendicolarmente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prostopadłe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

під прямим кутом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

în unghi drept
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σε ορθές γωνίες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

reghoekig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

i rät vinkel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

i rett vinkel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of at right angles

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AT RIGHT ANGLES»

The term «at right angles» is very widely used and occupies the 3.944 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AT RIGHT ANGLES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about at right angles

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2 QUOTES WITH «AT RIGHT ANGLES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word at right angles.
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Laura Haddock
I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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Lawrence Hargrave
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AT RIGHT ANGLES»

Discover the use of at right angles in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to at right angles and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rhizoctonia Solani, Biology and Pathology
A septum is formed in the branch near the constriction. As hyphae mature they become uniform and rigid and branch at right angles." He did not 32 mention a constriction in older hyphae but in an earlier paper Duggar and Stewart (1901) ...
J. R. Parmeter, 1970
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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of ...
3: From the Municipal Airport, Los Angeles, Calif., to a line extended at right angles across such airway through a point on the center line thereof 25 miles east of the Ashfork, Ariz., radio range station; from a line extended at right angles across ...
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The Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin Messenger of Mathematics
Let the straight lines AB, CD (fig. 4) be at right angles to the same plane ; then AB shall be parallel to CD. Let them meet the plane in the points B, D ; and draw the straight line BD, to which draw BE at right angles, in the same plane ; in DE, ...
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The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by D. Brewster
Then, because OC s at right angles to the perspective plane, every plane massing throughout it, is also at right angles to that ilane, (See E. 19. 11.) Therefore, the plane OCV is it right angles to the perspective plane ; but a plane s at right ...
Edinburgh encyclopaedia, David Brewster (sir), sir David Brewster, 1830
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The Edinburgh encyclopedia
be the centre, and AB the given vanishing line; from C draw CD, at right angles to AB, and from C draw CO, at right angles to CD, and make it equal to the distance of the picture; join OD, and from O draw PV at right angles to OD, and let it meet ...
Sir David Brewster, 1832
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The Edinburgh encyclopaedia
be the centre, and AB the given vanishing line; from C draw CD, at right angles to AB, and from C draw CO, at right angles to CD, and make it equal to the distance of the picture ; join OD, and from O draw PV at right angles to OD, and let it ...
Sir David Brewster, 1832
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The elements of Euclid: viz. the first six books, with the ...
... AX is to XD, as AE to EB ; therefore e, as AE to EB, so is CF to FD. Wherefore, if two straight lines, &c. Cv^E. D. ¥ 2.6. c ii. 5. il PROP. XVIII. THEOR. IF a straight line be at right angles to a plane, every plane which passes through it shall be ...
‎1799
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The Elements of Plane Geometry: Containing the First Six ...
But one plane is at right angles to another plane, when the straight lines drawn in one of the planes, at right angles to their common section, are also at right angles to the other plane (4-. Dgfi qf IX.) ; hence the plane ms is at right angles to the ...
‎1827
9
The Elements of Euclid, Viz the First Six Books, Together ...
W\J IF a straight line be at right angles to a plane, every plane which passes through it shall be at right angles to that plane. Let the straight line AB be at right angles to the plane CK. every plane which passes through AB shall be at right ...
Euclides, Robert Simson, 1756
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The Elements of Plane Geometry: Containing the First Six ...
But one plane is at right angles to another plane, when the straight lines drawn in one of the planes, at right angles to their common section, are also at right angles to the other plane (4. Def. of IX.) ; hence the plane de is at right angles to the ...
Thomas Keith, 1835

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AT RIGHT ANGLES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term at right angles is used in the context of the following news items.
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A call for action against AUB's cat slayer
His arms were swinging as he ran – elbows at right angles.” The rest of the April litter was found dead, also bloodied, the following day. «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
2
An ode to Democracy in America
... markedly stands at right angles to the dull-witted science of politics that is today too often dominant in the American academy and elsewhere. «MercatorNet, Jul 15»
3
Andy Murray survives scare to reach second week of Wimbledon …
It drifted low and lazily over the tape, so heavy with spin that when it landed, it kicked away at right angles. Somehow, Seppi reached it and ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Why we should still be reading Democracy in America
... markedly stands at right angles to the dull-witted science of politics that is today too often dominant in the American academy and elsewhere. «The Conversation US, Jul 15»
5
Mawkish tabloid fare: how the Amy Winehouse film fails
Cusack walks on the balls of his feet like a strange child, his palms at right angles to his body. He is a picture of emotional and physiological ... «New Statesman, Jul 15»
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Trapping vortices key to high-current superconductors
In a magnetic field, moving electrons are pushed off at right angles to their path. Electrons carrying current in a superconductor can be thought ... «Nanowerk, Jul 15»
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A golden bird and a jewel of an insect
The dragonfly extends its wing out at right angles to its body so that is lies flat and is very visible. The damselfly folds its wings together above ... «Sandusky Register, Jul 15»
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Back up from Down Under
The streets in the centre of the city are named after members of the British royal family: those named after female members run at right angles to ... «Derry Journal, Jul 15»
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Small gardens: seeing things from a fresh angle
Stephen Smith set the patio at right angles to the house, then ran the path on the same grid, so it led to a focal point of the oak bench in the far ... «Homes and Property, Jul 15»
10
Common sense key to surviving the wild
If you must spend a night in the wild, place one log horizontally and lay conifer boughs at right angles to it. Some have survived by nestling ... «St. George Daily Spectrum, Jul 15»

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