When we talk about the "right angle," we're referring to a type of angle that is precisely 90 degrees. This is an important concept in geometry and is often used in architecture, construction, and engineering. However, there are a few antonyms or opposites that we can use to describe angles that deviate from this perfect right angle. One is an acute angle, which is any angle that is smaller than 90 degrees. Another antonym is an obtuse angle, which is any angle that is greater than 90 degrees. Finally, we have the straight angle, which measures 180 degrees and is essentially a flat line. Understanding these different types of angles can help you better navigate the world around you and understand the principles of mathematics and physics.

What are the antonyms for Right angle?

• n.

  • shape
  • oblique angle
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Famous quotes with Right angle

• I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!

  Swoosie Kurtz
• The discovery of Hippocrates amounted to the discovery of the fact that from the relation (1)it follows thatand if , [then , and]The equations (1) are equivalent [by reducing to common denominators or cross multiplication] to the three equations (2)[or equivalently...and the solutions of Menaechmus described by Eutocius amount to the determination of a point as the intersection of the curves represented in a rectangular system of Cartesian coordinates by any two of the equations (2). Let AO, BO be straight lines placed so as to form a right angle at O, and of length respectively. Produce BO to and AO to . The solution now consists in drawing a parabola, with vertex O and axis O, such that its parameter is equal to BO or , and a hyperbola with O, O as asymptotes such that the rectangle under the distances of any point on the curve from O, O respectively is equal to the rectangle under AO, BO i.e. to . If P be the point of intersection of the parabola and hyperbola, and PN, PM be drawn perpendicular to O, O, i.e. if PN, PM be denoted by , the coordinates of the point P, we shall havewhenceIn the solution of Menaechmus we are to draw the parabola described in the first solution and also the parabola whose vertex is O, axis O and parameter equal to . The point P where the two parabolas intersect is given bywhence, as before,

  Thomas Little Heath
• In geometry the following theorems are attributed to him [Thales]—and their character shows how the Greeks had to begin at the very beginning of the theory—(1) that a circle is bisected by any diameter (Eucl. I., Def. 17), (2) that the angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal (Eucl. I., 5), (3) that, if two straight lines cut one another, the vertically opposite angles are equal (Eucl. I., 15), (4) that, if two triangles have two angles and one side respectively equal, the triangles are equal in all respects (Eucl. I., 26). He is said (5) to have been the first to inscribe a right-angled triangle in a circle: which must mean that he was the first to discover that the angle in a semicircle is a right angle. He also solved two problems in practical geometry: (1) he showed how to measure the distance from the land of a ship at sea (for this he is said to have used the proposition numbered (4) above), and (2) he measured the heights of pyramids by means of the shadow thrown on the ground (this implies the use of similar triangles in the way that the Egyptians had used them in the construction of pyramids).

  Thomas Little Heath

The antonyms for the term "Middle Class Populations" are "extreme poverty populations" and "wealthy high-class populations." Extreme poverty populations refer to people who suffer ...