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Definition of Right-angled
1. Adjective. Forming a right angle or containing one or more right angles. "A right-angled bend"
Definition of Right-angled
1. Adjective. (not comparable geometry) Having a right angle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Right-angled
Literary usage of Right-angled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"By experiment on a right-angled prismatic rocker (ie if the lines А с and в D
... In the case of a right-angled. rocker as above,"of course the distance D в ..."
2. The American Arithmetic: Adapted to the Currency of the United States. To by Oliver Welch (1826)
"To measure the surface of a right angled triangle. , DEFINITION.—A right angled
triangle is formed by a right line falling perpendicularly on another line, ..."
3. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"... that the ancients denned a cone as the surface described by the revolution of
a right-angled triangle about one of the sides containing the right angle, ..."
4. The Cyclopædia;: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature.by Abraham Rees by Abraham Rees (1819)
"... or make FI equal to GH, and join В I. In a right-angled trihedral are given
the two fide» containing the right angle, to find the acute angle?, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But two or four right-angled isosceles triangles, properly put together, form
the square ; two or six of the most beautiful scalene ..."
6. The University Arithmetic: Embracing the Science of Numbers, and Their by Charles Davies (1852)
"RIGHT ANGLED TRIANGLE. 349. The properties of the right angled are so important
... In every right angled triangle, the square described on the hypothenuse, ..."
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