at right angles
Example Sentences
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When a magnetic field is applied, a second voltage develops at right angles to the current.
From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026
For instance, latitudes and longitudes meet at right angles on the Earth’s surface, so they appear as a nice rectangular grid on the Mercator map.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
But what excited them most were two pieces of wood found at right angles to each other.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2023
At LIGO, Hanford vacuum tubes extend for 2.5 miles at right angles across previously unused Hanford site shrub steppe land near the Tri-Cities.
From Seattle Times • May 29, 2023
We can imagine generating a cube in the following way: Take a line segment of a certain length and move it an equal length at right angles to itself.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
