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angular

UK/ˈæŋ.ɡju.lə/US/ˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/
adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,412 of 15,258mostly written

Angular means made of sharp corners, or bony and thin. An angular face, angular design, angular and awkward.

Of a face it means the bones show, which is a compliment or not depending entirely on the era. In physics angular velocity is the rate of turning, which is a quite separate technical use.

Definitions of angular

  1. 1adjectiveangularMade of sharp corners, or bony and thin.C2

    “The modern building is all angular glass and steel, with no curves anywhere.”

angular is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin angularis comes from angulus, a corner or angle.

  1. Latin

    angulāris

  2. Middle English

    angular

  3. English, today

    angular

Built from

  • angulus · Latin — angle, corner

From Middle English angular, anguler, from Latin angulāris, from angulus (“angle, corner”). See angle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

angular in the wild

  • Similar to conservation of linear momentum in the absence of external forces, angular momentum is conserved if there is no external torque.

    Angular momentum

  • Torque can be defined as the rate of change of angular momentum, analogous to force.

    Angular momentum

  • The angular velocity as given above for point particles, is called orbital angular velocity.

    Angular velocity

  • A rigid body rotating about a fixed axis has each point of the body having the same orbital angular velocity.

    Angular velocity

  • The closely related term spatial resolution refers to the precision of a measurement with respect to space, which is directly connected to angular resolution in imaging instruments.

    Angular resolution

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

the angulus family

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