Angle

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"For if the Angle is increased over the Best Climbing Angle, the Drift will rush up; and the Speed, and with it the Lift, will, when my Angle is reached, drop to a point when the latter will be no more than the Weight.

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  1. noun A member of a Germanic people that migrated to England from southern Jutland in the 5th century A.D., founded the kingdoms of Northumbria, East Anglia, and Mercia, and together with the Jutes and Saxons formed the Anglo-Saxon peoples.

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  • We've asked Bob Angle, a member of the 360 crew to offer up his own dramatic reading of Latimer's prose -- Bob? —  CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2009
  • "For if the Angle is increased over the Best Climbing Angle, the Drift will rush up; and the Speed, and with it the Lift, will, when my Angle is reached, drop to a point when the latter will be no more than the Weight. —  The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
  • Then to my Angle was my fish. —  The Complete Angler 1653
  • Angle, Stephen C. (2002), Human Rights and Chinese Thought: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. —  Chinese Ethics
  • Angle was more of a consideration. —  Alone
 

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  1. From Latin Anglī, the Angles, of Germanic origin.

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  1. In modern use only as a historical term; from Latin Anglus, usually in plural Angli (first in Tacitus), representing the Old Teutonic form found in Anglo-Saxon Angle, Ongle, Ængle, reg. Engle, plural (in comp. Angel-, Ongel-), the people of Angel, Angol, Angul, Ongul(=Icelandic Öngull), a district of what is now Schleswig-Holstein, said to be so named from angel, angul, ongul, a hook, in ref. to its shape: see angle. Hence Anglo-, Anglo-Saxon, English, q. v.
 

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