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Definition of Obliquity
1. Noun. The presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle.
Group relationships: Childbed, Confinement, Labor, Labour, Lying-in, Parturiency, Travail
Generic synonyms: Abnormalcy, Abnormality
2. Noun. The quality of being deceptive.
Generic synonyms: Dishonesty
Specialized synonyms: Meretriciousness, Speciousness
Derivative terms: Deceptive, Deceptive, Oblique
Definition of Obliquity
1. n. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.
Definition of Obliquity
1. Noun. The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; (non-gloss definition or) the angle created by such a deviation. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
2. Noun. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. (defdate from 15th c.) ¹
3. Noun. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obliquity
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Medical Definition of Obliquity
1. Absence of synclitism or parallelism between the axis of the presenting part of the child and the pelvic planes in childbirth. Synonym: obliquity. Origin: G. A-priv. + syn-klino, to incline together (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obliquity
Literary usage of Obliquity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Magazine (1830)
"On the obliquity of the Ecliptic. By WILLIAM GAL- BRAITH, Esq. MA To the Editors
of the Philosophical Magazine and Annals. ..."
2. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1900)
"THE most obvious method of finding the obliquity of the ecliptic is to measure
the sun's apparent declination at cither the northern or the southern ..."
3. Handbook of Climatology by Julius von Hann (1903)
"The changes in the obliquity of the ecliptic may, according to Laplace. amount,
at a maximum, to 1° 22-5- on both sides of the value 23° 2£ The obliquity of ..."
4. An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy: In Two Parts. The First Containing, a by John Gummere (1837)
"PROBLEM VIII. , The obliquity of the Ecliptic and the Sun's longitude being given,
... To the Cosine* of the obliquity, add the Tangent of the Longitude, ..."
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