right-angled
Example Sentences
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The Baku street circuit is notorious for creating incident - its combination of long straights and tight, right-angled corners are bounded by walls, so mistakes tend to be punished.
From BBC • Sep. 20, 2025
As they watched, they saw the two stars wobbling around on their orbits, and worked out that this pattern could only be caused by an exoplanet on a right-angled, ferris-wheel like path.
From Space Scoop • May 6, 2025
Made up of right-angled kites, it was nothing like the gnarly, complicated kind of shape many mathematicians would have predicted.
From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023
Vessels must execute a sharp right-angled turn at the strait’s northern end, where the strong winds common in winter could strike a large ship broadside and blow it off course.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021
Pythagoras had learned the triangle theorem—that the length of the third side of a right-angled triangle can be deduced mathematically from the length of the other two sides—from Indian or Babylonian geometers.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
