Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having an obtuse angle: as, an obtuse-angled triangle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having an obtuse angle.
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- adjective geometry Of a
triangle , having anobtuse angle.
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Examples
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Rather, they'll view it from the side, with those sloping, off-beat, obtuse-angled setbacks giving the building a syncopated feel.
Peis Partner in Manhattan Dana Rubinstein 2011
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And far across the park on Broadway a hook-and-ladder truck pulled by four gray horses made the obtuse-angled turn into Mail Street toward us.
Time and Again Finney, Jack 1995
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With too obtuse-angled wedges the wedge resistance is too high, with too acute-angled wedges that of the body being worked is too high.
2. Types, Construction and Mode of Action of Mortising and Ripping Tools Rolf Jakoby 1993
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The treatises on higher geometry are all lost; they include (1) the _Conics_ in four Books, which covered almost the same ground as the first three Books of Apollonius's _Conics_, although no doubt, for Euclid, the conics were still, as with his predecessors, sections of a right-angled, an obtuse-angled, and an acute-angled cone respectively made by a plane perpendiular to a generator in each case;
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The effect of these several obtuse-angled joints in the limb is to absorb the greater part of the force exerted by the body-weight before it reaches the foot.
Diseases of the Horse's Foot Harry Caulton Reeks
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His business taking him deep into the county among the farms, he was always in walking trim, with an umbrella crooked over one arm, his other hand grasping the obtuse-angled handle of a ground-ash stick.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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An obtuse-angled triangle has one obtuse angle, as A, Figure 62.
Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose
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_ -- What is the most simple and least complicated method of determining the various relations of the sides and angles of the acute and obtuse-angled triangles, without the aid of trigonometry, construction, or, in fact, by any method except arithmetic?
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I represented numbers by pebbles, and covered the floor with black lines, and proved clearly by the diagram before me the differences between acute-angled, right-angled, and obtuse-angled triangles; in like manner I ascertained whether a square has the same area as a rectangle two of whose sides are multiplied, by stepping off the length in both cases [utrobique procurrente podismo].
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Eudena's waist, it was obtuse-angled and toothed with flints.
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