oblique angle

noun

: an acute or obtuse angle

Examples of oblique angle in a Sentence

The dancer held his leg at an oblique angle to his body.

Recent Examples on the Web

And so, offers of help often come at oblique angles. —Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025

Characters are shot from the back, or in oblique angles that obscure their faces, and typical reaction shots are few and far between. —Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024

The novelist comes at this group from an oblique angle. —Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024

Take the newest Apple Watch, which can be viewed from oblique angles, with an always-on screen that accommodates a ticking seconds hand even when your hand is down. —Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024

Long takes and oblique angles lend the solitudes in Schoenbrun’s world a pensive solidity that belies the cold, often flickery glow of the screens in which the characters immure themselves. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024

Nano-prisms view well at an angle Samsung's new nano-prism image has a sensitivity to light sources at more oblique angles compared to some conventional pixel tech today. —IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023

For all its abstract shapes and oblique angles, Aromáticas is playful and curious. —Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023

In the ’50s and ’60s, the primal appeal of fluid spaces inspired the French architect Claude Parent to sing the wonders of oblique angles and inclined planes. —Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1647, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for oblique angle

• disentangle
• bangle
• dangle
• jangle
• mangle
• strangle
• tangle
• wrangle
• entangle
• quadrangle
• triangle
• untangle

Kids Definition

oblique angle

noun

: an acute or obtuse angle