obliquity

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Cutting through the obliquity, which is formidable, his ever-changing "deadline" will be adjusted if realities on the ground so dictate.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being oblique.
  2. noun A deviation from a vertical or horizontal line, plane, position, or direction.
  3. noun The angle or extent of such a deviation.
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  • Thus “clean” ice is deposited during times of low obliquity, and “dirty” ice in epochs of high obliquity, so there should be a layering in the embedded dust about 10m thick. —  AnalogSFF,March2008
  • You won't be angry with me for my obliquity (as you will consider it) about Ossian. —  The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
  • Cutting through the obliquity, which is formidable, his ever-changing "deadline" will be adjusted if realities on the ground so dictate. —  Balderdash
  • The team determined that ice and snow deposits formed in the alcoves at a time when Mars had a high obliquity (its most recent ice age) and ice was accumulating in the mid-latitude regions. —  Mars Today Top Stories
  • Mars has been in a low-obliquity cycle ever since, which explains why no exposed ice has been found beyond the poles. —  Mars Today Top Stories
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  1. from F. obliquité = Spanish oblicuidad = Portuguese obliquidade = Italian obliquità, from Latin obliquita(t-)s, a slanting direction, obliqueness, from obliquus, slanting, oblique: see oblique.
 

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