Definition of angles

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Angles (n. pl.) An ancient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc..

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Tetraxile :: Tetraxile (a.) Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.
Mouflon :: Mouflon (n.) A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon..
Gonidium :: Gonidium (n.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.
Columbiad :: Columbiad (n.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation..
Digonous :: Digonous (a.) Having two angles.
Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square..
Orthographical :: Orthographical (a.) Of or pertaining to right lines or angles.
Trigonal :: Trigonal (a.) Having three angles, or corners; triangular; as, a trigonal stem, one having tree prominent longitudinal angles..
Pentangular :: Pentangular (a.) Having five corners or angles.
Goniometry :: Goniometry (n.) The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.
Hastated :: Hastated (n.) Shaped like the head of a halberd; triangular, with the basal angles or lobes spreading; as, a hastate leaf..
Quadrangle :: Quadrangle (n.) A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles..
Angulometer :: Angulometer (n.) An instrument for measuring external angles.
Quartering :: Quartering (a.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other..
Theodolite :: Theodolite (n.) An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed..
Starfish :: Starfish (n.) Any one of numerous species of echinoderms belonging to the class Asterioidea, in which the body is star-shaped and usually has five rays, though the number of rays varies from five to forty or more. The rays are often long, but are sometimes so short as to appear only as angles to the disklike body. Called also sea star, five-finger, and stellerid..
Diamagnetic :: Diamagnetic (n.) Any substance, as bismuth, glass, phosphorous, etc., which in a field of magnetic force is differently affected from the ordinary magnetic bodies, as iron; that is, which tends to take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet..
Curve :: Curve (a.) A bending without angles; that which is bent; a flexure; as, a curve in a railway or canal..
Antiae :: Antiae (n. pl.) The two projecting feathered angles of the forehead of some birds; the frontal points.
Quinquangular :: Quinquangular (a.) Having five angles or corners.
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