oblique : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso
  abdominal external oblique muscle; musculus obliquus externus abdominis; oblique.
  

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• noun a diagonally arranged abdominal muscle on either side of the torso
  abdominal external oblique muscle; musculus obliquus externus abdominis; oblique.
  

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• noun an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle
  

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• etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc.

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• (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew.

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• noun a bandage in which successive turns proceed obliquely up or down a limb
  

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• a skew bridge. See under Bridge, n.

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• noun any grammatical case other than the nominative
  oblique.
  

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• (Gram.), any case except the nominative. See Case, n.

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• (Projection), a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane.

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• (Mil.), a fire the direction of which is not perpendicular to the line fired at.

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• (Fort.), that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered. Wilhelm.

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• . (Bot.) (a) A leaf twisted or inclined from the normal position. (b) A leaf having one half different from the other.

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• (Geom.), a line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it.

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• (Mus.), a kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone, as in the accompanying example.

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• (Anat.), a muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles; applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.

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• . See Oblique speech.

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• (Dialing), planes which decline from the zenith, or incline toward the horizon.

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• (Naut.), the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.

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• (Rhet.), speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker.

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• (Astron. & Geog.), the celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator.

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• (Mil.), a step in marching, by which the soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25°. It is not now practiced. Wilhelm.

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• (Anal. Geom.), a system in which the coördinate axes are oblique to each other.

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• noun a triangle that contains no right angle
  

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• noun a tributary of the coronary sinus; on the posterior wall of the left atrium
  vena obliqua atrii sinistri.
  

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• adjective satellite having oblique angles
  

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Ob*lique"-an`gled adjective

Definitions

1. Having oblique angles; as, an oblique-angled triangle.

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