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The first angle is the tilt angle (τ) which is defined as the angle between the principal axis of the peptide backbone and the normal to the plane of the lipid bilayer, while the second angle is the azimuthal rotation angle (φ) which is defined as the angle between the normal to the β-sheet plane and the vector normal to the lipid bilayer.

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  1. intransitive verb To fish with a hook and line.
  2. intransitive verb To try to get something by indirect or artful means: angle for a promotion.
  3. noun Obsolete A fishhook or fishing tackle.
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  • On the other hand, in my stage play Answering Spirits , about the Fox sisters and the rise of Spiritualism in the USA, my angle was the exact opposite: that there's no such thing as spirits, that Spiritualism is entirely founded on a hoax, and is wholly a non-supernatural phenomenon. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#4
  • Although the angle was acute, by standing on tiptoe, he could see over the lower part of the flange and could distinguish, dark though it was, what looked like heavy mesh or honeycomb. —  Wonder Story Annual - 1950
  • She didn't have a chance to wind up and the angle was all wrong. —  Star Trek - DS9 - Section 31 book 3 - Abyss
  • The working mother angle is a distraction, and therefore it's not a very realistic portrayal. —  BlogHer
  • BUT the angle is as follows (and this is why i am also avoiding "restore factory settings") - when i sync items purchased on my imac onto the apple tv (this still works fine), i notice that in the "capacity" bar for the apple TV, it shows the apple TV's memory as virtually full. —  Discussions: Message List - root
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  1. Middle English anglen, from angel, fishhook, from Old English.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin angulus.

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  1. from Middle English angle, angel, angil, from Anglo-Saxon angel, angul, ongul, a hook, fish-hook (= Old Saxon angul = Old Dutch angel, anghel, a hook, fish-hook, sting, awn, beard (of grain), Dutch angel = Low German angel, a hook, = Old High German angul, Middle High German G. angel, a hook, fish-hook, sting, point, hinge (cf. Old Dutch hangel, hanghel, hengel, a hook, a hinge, Dutch hengel, an angling-rod, German dial. hängel, a hook, ear, joint, these forms and senses being in part those of a different word, cognate with English hinge: see hinge, hang), = Icelandic öngull, a hook, = Danish Swedish angel, a hook), with formative -el, -ul, from anga, onga (rare, and only in glosses), a sting, = Old High German ango, a sting, hinge, Middle High German ange, a fish-hook, hinge, = Icelandic angi, a sting, spine, prickle, = Norwegian ange, angje, a prong, jag, tooth. The earliest notion seems to have been ‘pointed,’ but the word also involved the notion of ‘bent,’ perhaps from a different source; cf. Greek ἀγκύλος, bent, crooked, curved, = Latin angulus for *anculus, a corner, angle; Greek ὀγκος, a hook, barb, angle, = Latin uncus, a hook; bent, curved: see Angle, angle, ankylosis, uncous.
  2. from late Middle English angle, Old Dutch angelen, Dutch hengelen = German angeln = Danish angle; from the noun.
  3. from Middle English angle, aungel, sometimes angule, from Old French angle = Provencal angle = Spanish Portuguese angulo, Italian angolo, from Latin angulus, a corner, an angle, prob. orig. *anculus (cf. ancus, bent, crooked) = Greek ἀγκύλος, bent, crooked, curved, connected with ἀγκών, the bend of the arm, the elbow (see ancon), ἄγκος, a glen, dell (properly a bend, hollow), ὄγκος, a hook, barb, angle, = Latin uncus, bent, curved, a hook (see uncous); all apparently from √ *ank, bend (appearing also in Greek ἄγκυρα, later L. ancora, later English anker, anchor), Sanskrit √ anch, bend, and prob. connected with the Teutonic group represented by angle: see angle.
  4. angle, n.
 

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