Definition of angular in English:

angular

adjectiveˈaŋɡjʊləˈæŋɡjələr

1Having angles or sharp corners.
angular chairs
有方角的椅子。
Adam's angular black handwriting
亚当有棱有角的黑色手写体。
Example sentencesExamples
- In plan, the fort was of angular shape defined by five straight stretches of boundary.
- Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice.
- It was a compact, efficient two-seater with high ground clearance, sharp angular lines, and impressive torque running off a fission reactor.
- The door opened onto a catwalk overlooking the bay, where a sleek, angular, black ship was dominating the hangar.
- At night, the Carlton Hotel, like many other art deco hotels in Miami, emphasizes its sharp, angular geometric forms with colorful neon lights.
- Peck used locally quarried andesite, a brittle stone that fractures into sharp, angular shapes and has a sparkly surface.
- I don't know what I'm looking for so I just go through the pages pretty quick, and his handwriting is tiny and angular, and it all blurs together real fast.
- A high-cut red dress with circular strands of wool rope, and a white knitted tube with an abrupt, angular black panel just below were two highlights from this label.
- Where required, surfaces are smooth and curved rather than boxy and angular, further lending the outdoor levels an organic ambience.
- He then went on to make paintings where the outside shapes were angular instead of more familiar squares and rectangles.
- She whipped her hair back into a tail, and put on her black angular glasses.
- One shape should be sharp, angular and synthetic, while the other is soft, rounded and biomorphic.
- The odd and heavy feel of the wad of notes that his uncle had given to him was gone, but now in the money's place was a small box, soft and velvety to the touch, yet sharp and angular at the corners.
- The word ‘barbican’ describes a fortified outpost of gateway, and it is a good fit for the angular, sharp architecture of this London development.
- The pattern is an unusual long series of odd pointed / angular shapes, some of which appear roughly symmetrical.
- Some really give us a feeling that we're looking at something Picasso himself may have created, in terms of color and angular shapes.
- Finally he'd chosen an angular chair, covered with ice blue leather and facing the windows.
- Where the fuselage was smooth, this section was angular, like a flat topped pyramid attached to the end of the vessel.
- From the air the land would have looked like a jigsaw of angular green and brown shapes.
- One technique that designers often use is a series of angular walls that allow several rooms to look out on a rear view.
Synonyms
sharp-cornered, pointed, V-shaped, Y-shaped
forked, bifurcate
1. 1.1 (of a person or part of their body) lean and having a prominent bone structure.
  （人，身体部分）瘦骨嶙峋的
  her angular face
  她那瘦削的脸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Our faces are the same shape even though her features are more rounded and mine are pronounced and sort of angular in a way I don't like but all the boys seem to.
  With her gaze she traced his jaw, smooth and angular, edging up towards his eyes.
  His face was sharp and angular, and turned down in a deep scowl.
  In a matter of minutes the white shade went flying up to the ceiling and she could see his face, his sharp angular face.
  His cap cast a shadow over the top part of his face and accentuated the slightly angular shape of his jaws.
  A young man, his angular features sharp as if whittled by a knife, led the self-criticism.
  His face seemed to have been carved from the very stone around them, with sharp, angular features and a hawk-like nose.
  Their green faces were pinched and angular, with massive black eyes and tiny sharp teeth.
  His face was swelling, and his lip was torn, but his smooth, angular features were exquisite.
  The woman was somewhat plump with a sharp, angular face.
  It was of a tousle-haired blond boy, with sharp, angular features and laughing eyes.
  My gaze traveled upwards, taking in a smooth, angular jaw, full lips, and brilliant emerald eyes.
  Her features were beautiful sharp and angular.
  It was a sharp, angular face with high arching eyebrows and a mop of perfectly messy red-gold hair mixed with silvery gray crowing the head.
  He looks up at her face, pulling back his hood to reveal a sharp angular face with flame-like red hair.
  She could only make out the strong angular shape of his face.
  Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin.
  Her face was smooth and angular with arched eyebrows, but the most beautiful and strange thing about Anna was her hair.
  She was a tall and stately woman, with angular features and sharp eyes.
  Janssen, though beautiful, has no soft edges - her face is angular, her nose sharp, her amazing figure more sculpted than curved.
  Synonyms
  bony, raw-boned, skin-and-bones
  lean, rangy, spare, thin, lanky, spindly, skinny, gaunt, scrawny, scraggy
  informal looking like a bag of bones, anorexic, anorectic
  dated spindle-shanked
  rare gracile, macilent
2Physics
Denoting physical properties or quantities measured with reference to or by means of an angle, especially those associated with rotation.
〔物理〕角度的，角的，用角度量的
angular acceleration
角加速度。
Example sentencesExamples
- Once the poles and the angular rotations are specified, the whole motion is completely determined.
- The solution for the optical lithography industry is to offset birefringence by arranging different optical components at the proper angular orientations.
- For highly perfect crystals, the angular range and associated wavelength range can be very small.
- One can learn all sorts of interesting things about the cosmological history of our universe from the angular spectrum of the cosmic background radiation.
- The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field.
- The tilt sensors were comprised of 4 levels of unidirectional fixed inclinometers, used to measure the angular displacement between the levels.
- The crushing also produced a sharp sand with angular grains that made it far preferable as a bonding agent in mortar.
- Additional accelerometers can measure the vehicle's linear accelerations and angular acceleration about the spin axis.
- The physical scalar fields that oscillate as normal modes about the potential minimum are the massless angular mode and the massive radial mode.
- An infrared localiser measures the angular deviation between the missile and the line-of-sight.
- The gyroscopes sense angular motion by measuring the Coriolis effect induced by rotation, using a vibrating MEMS structure.
- The oscillations of the scalar field around the flat angular direction of the scalar potential turn into longitudinal oscillations of the physical gauge field.
- A rotary encoder is a digital input device used to measure angular rotation and direction.
- The accelerometers and gyroscopes in an INS measure linear acceleration and angular orientation rates very accurately and with minimum time delay.
- Roads should be surfaced with crushed stone that is angular, so the sharp edges of the rocks compact into each other like pieces of a puzzle, helping to create a solid top layer.
- At this stage the rate of descent and particularly the angular rotation appeared to me to be very high and I was sure that ground impact in this configuration would have severe consequences.
- The students explained that this involved use of inertial sensors to sense the aircraft acceleration and angular rates.
- Typically the driver turns the runners less than 5° to produce a lateral force on the front runners and an angular acceleration.
- The magnitude of the angular change associated with the transition from rigor to relaxation was similar for both light chains and amounted to less than 5 deg.
- This ion has a single electron in its outer shell and its first excited energy level is split into a doublet as a result of interactions between the orbital and spin angular momenta of the electron.
3Astrology
Relating to or denoting any of the houses that begin at the four cardinal points of a chart.
〔占星〕方位基点宫的
Example sentencesExamples
- In general, the movement of planets to angular positions in relocated charts is of greatest importance.
- However, Saturn is receiving a trine from an angular Moon which is placed in the terms of Mercury.
- As an item of personal property, the bag is signified by the 2nd-house ruler Venus, which is angular, showing it to be nearby.
- Apart from a weak planet in an angular house, the thief can also be shown by the ruler of the seventh house.
- Because Mercury is angular it has - as the significator of illness - the power to do damage.
- If this is the case but there is no aspect, yet the planet to which the Moon applies is angular, the pregnancy will be successful.
- With his angular Mars, 8th house Moon and Scorpio Sun, George S. Patton was born to take no prisoners.
- They all fall under the rulership of Venus, which in this chart is grounded in earth and tied into a grand trine involving angular Mars and Saturn.
- Many planets of one person's chart fall into the angular houses of the other's natal chart.
- However, the Moon is angular and its forthcoming sextile to Mars offers a stronger argument that the father can find a will to resist disease.
- Venus and Mercury in conjunction are making a nice sextile to the angular Jupiter as well.
- Those planets that are highlighted by having many aspects, hard aspects, in angular houses or outer planet conjunctions are good indicators of conflict.
- The ruler of the 1st house is Venus, dignified by term and in the angular 10th house.
- In succedent or cadent houses, this opposition, while important, would not have taken on the same importance as when placed in angular houses.
- Three quarters of the charts had at least one angular planet, half had two or more and a quarter had three or more.
- Venus and Saturn would have to be considered since they are in angular houses.
- Mercury, triplicity ruler of the lights and ascendant, is angular and almuten.
- Fortunately, your Venus in Capricorn is strongly angular and in the exaltation of the ruler of your midheaven, Mars.
- Valens says that it is evident that the nativity is a notable one because all the triplicity rulers are in their own signs and two of them are angular.
- Of course, other factors tie into this, such as the exalted and angular Jupiter, ruler of his ascendant.

Derivatives

angularity

nounˌaŋɡjʊˈlarətiˌæŋɡjəˈlɛrədi

Lee says that what people remembered about Woolf was: ‘Her thinness, her fine bones, her fragility, […] and her mixture of angularity and awkwardness.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Perhaps it is enough to experience this building as a piece of urban sculpture, seamlessly wrapping the street and offsetting the Gothic angularity of its surrounding churches.
- The degree of segregation depends on particle size distribution, density, and possibly angularity of heterogeneous sand mixtures.
- In other words, these are not ‘folk-tune settings,’ although one could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the plainspoken roughness and angularity of Veress's music.
- In contrast, the sharpness of the edges of the individual grains or their angularity records the history of the grain during transport and, to a lesser extent, during diagenesis.
- Gringolts shows maturity beyond his 21 years in his rich phrasing of the boldly romantic Sibelius and the prickly angularity of the Prokofiev.
- The melodic richness and astringent angularity of Sibelius's muse are in full bloom in his Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47.
- Dimples, especially on the chin, also increase the angularity and definition of the male face, creating the impression of a strong visage.
- At times, the dancers appear to be flying or diving; at others, they move with the spasmodic angularity attributed to robots, their faces expressionless masks.
- The effect is a uniquely bucolic landscape art, as rich in natural detail as it is in quasi-mystical symbolism, and painted with an angularity derived partly from Wyndham Lewis and partly from the Pole Jankel Adler.
- One boy's picture captures perfectly the blocky angularity and monumental presence of Lawrence's three ironing women.
- This face looks best in finer frames that don't draw attention to any heaviness or angularity.
- Like many critics of Federation Square, this guy emphasised the harshness, angularity and general uninvitingness of the development.
- With its succinct, buoyant melodies and sparse angularity, Kirby Sideroad brings to mind Ornette Coleman's early quartet music.
- First, take the fashion model angularity of Nicole Mourier and Mia Dime, and transplant them to the Berlin underground art scene.
- The light grey plastic shell is reduced to simple flat planes, but the angularity is softened by rounded edges and corners.
- The rhythmic angularity of the recontextualized rift imparts a temporary sense of disorientation that subverts the song's forward momentum.
- The angularity of his original Quintergy contrasts with the languid fluency of the following track, Lament.
- Initial porosity in well-sorted sand also is dependent on grain angularity, the porosity increasing with increase in angularity.

angularly

adverb

A fourth group extends angularly from the fourth common plane toward the front end in a fourth common oblique plane to form a fourth terminal edge which extends beyond the third terminal edge.
Example sentencesExamples
- We found that the index of refraction used for the material comprising the core was very important in terms of the resulting angularly resolved scattering signatures.
- Hence, tests were one-tailed. t-Tests were performed on angularly transformed O allele frequencies with each population mean taken as a datum (n = 3 populations/selection regime).
- But Mrs Rocatti better arrive soon, before Dundee's angularly athletic goalkeeper earns himself a move elsewhere.
- Irradiation of aminolevulinic acid/protoporphyrin IX-sensitized cells with 10 J cm - 2 of 514 nm light led to pronounced changes in angularly resolved light scattering consistent with mitochondrial swelling.
- She stands strong and dignified, with her sinewy and angularly carved face turning slightly away as though just having taken another unavoidable look at a painful past.
- We constructed a goniometer to measure angularly resolved light scattering.
- I used parametric tests on angularly transformed data.
- The experimental setup uses a standard OCT system with an additional apparatus to rotate the sample to acquire multiple angularly displaced OCT images (displaced-reflector images).
- In the holographic glass approach, multiple holograms are angularly multiplexed in glass to produce large-angle deflections.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an astrological term): from Latin angularis, from angulus (see angle¹).

Rhymes

quadrangular, rectangular, triangular

Definition of angular in US English:

angular

adjectiveˈaNGɡyələrˈæŋɡjələr

1(of an object, outline, or shape) having angles or sharp corners.
（物体、轮廓和形状）有角的，有尖角的
angular chairs
有方角的椅子。
Adam's angular black handwriting
亚当有棱有角的黑色手写体。
Example sentencesExamples
- The word ‘barbican’ describes a fortified outpost of gateway, and it is a good fit for the angular, sharp architecture of this London development.
- A high-cut red dress with circular strands of wool rope, and a white knitted tube with an abrupt, angular black panel just below were two highlights from this label.
- The odd and heavy feel of the wad of notes that his uncle had given to him was gone, but now in the money's place was a small box, soft and velvety to the touch, yet sharp and angular at the corners.
- Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice.
- Where required, surfaces are smooth and curved rather than boxy and angular, further lending the outdoor levels an organic ambience.
- It was a compact, efficient two-seater with high ground clearance, sharp angular lines, and impressive torque running off a fission reactor.
- One shape should be sharp, angular and synthetic, while the other is soft, rounded and biomorphic.
- Finally he'd chosen an angular chair, covered with ice blue leather and facing the windows.
- At night, the Carlton Hotel, like many other art deco hotels in Miami, emphasizes its sharp, angular geometric forms with colorful neon lights.
- Some really give us a feeling that we're looking at something Picasso himself may have created, in terms of color and angular shapes.
- In plan, the fort was of angular shape defined by five straight stretches of boundary.
- One technique that designers often use is a series of angular walls that allow several rooms to look out on a rear view.
- She whipped her hair back into a tail, and put on her black angular glasses.
- From the air the land would have looked like a jigsaw of angular green and brown shapes.
- The door opened onto a catwalk overlooking the bay, where a sleek, angular, black ship was dominating the hangar.
- Where the fuselage was smooth, this section was angular, like a flat topped pyramid attached to the end of the vessel.
- Peck used locally quarried andesite, a brittle stone that fractures into sharp, angular shapes and has a sparkly surface.
- He then went on to make paintings where the outside shapes were angular instead of more familiar squares and rectangles.
- I don't know what I'm looking for so I just go through the pages pretty quick, and his handwriting is tiny and angular, and it all blurs together real fast.
- The pattern is an unusual long series of odd pointed / angular shapes, some of which appear roughly symmetrical.
Synonyms
sharp-cornered, pointed, v-shaped, y-shaped
1. 1.1 (of a person or part of their body) lean and having a prominent bone structure.
  （人，身体部分）瘦骨嶙峋的
  her angular face
  她那瘦削的脸。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He looks up at her face, pulling back his hood to reveal a sharp angular face with flame-like red hair.
  His cap cast a shadow over the top part of his face and accentuated the slightly angular shape of his jaws.
  She could only make out the strong angular shape of his face.
  In a matter of minutes the white shade went flying up to the ceiling and she could see his face, his sharp angular face.
  Janssen, though beautiful, has no soft edges - her face is angular, her nose sharp, her amazing figure more sculpted than curved.
  His face was sharp and angular, and turned down in a deep scowl.
  It was of a tousle-haired blond boy, with sharp, angular features and laughing eyes.
  Her features were beautiful sharp and angular.
  The woman was somewhat plump with a sharp, angular face.
  Our faces are the same shape even though her features are more rounded and mine are pronounced and sort of angular in a way I don't like but all the boys seem to.
  She was a tall and stately woman, with angular features and sharp eyes.
  My gaze traveled upwards, taking in a smooth, angular jaw, full lips, and brilliant emerald eyes.
  It was a sharp, angular face with high arching eyebrows and a mop of perfectly messy red-gold hair mixed with silvery gray crowing the head.
  With her gaze she traced his jaw, smooth and angular, edging up towards his eyes.
  Their green faces were pinched and angular, with massive black eyes and tiny sharp teeth.
  His face seemed to have been carved from the very stone around them, with sharp, angular features and a hawk-like nose.
  A young man, his angular features sharp as if whittled by a knife, led the self-criticism.
  His face was swelling, and his lip was torn, but his smooth, angular features were exquisite.
  Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin.
  Her face was smooth and angular with arched eyebrows, but the most beautiful and strange thing about Anna was her hair.
  Synonyms
  bony, raw-boned, skin-and-bones
2. 1.2 (of a person's way of moving) not flowing smoothly; awkward or jerky.
  his movements were stiff and angular
  figurative the music is angular and sardonic
  Example sentencesExamples
  The cast bursts into and out of the wings with jerky, angular jumps, as if someone were pulling hard on their strings.
  The dance consisted of jerky, angular movements which frequently gave way to Kwan's fluid ease.
  But ever since women became interested in breakdancing, they've brought a new way of moving to it - more angular, graceful and fluid, and more feminine.
  This ballet had no scenery, angular choreography, and the Stravinsky music, and it was jarring to me as a 12-year-old.
  I'd imagine it would look something like the Elaine Benes full-body seizure, so jerky and angular that you can't help but cheer.
  The red pair moves more like their rustic colleagues, with big and rather angular movements.
2Physics
Denoting physical properties or quantities measured with reference to or by means of an angle, especially those associated with rotation.
〔物理〕角度的，角的，用角度量的
angular acceleration
角加速度。
Example sentencesExamples
- One can learn all sorts of interesting things about the cosmological history of our universe from the angular spectrum of the cosmic background radiation.
- Once the poles and the angular rotations are specified, the whole motion is completely determined.
- The gyroscopes sense angular motion by measuring the Coriolis effect induced by rotation, using a vibrating MEMS structure.
- For highly perfect crystals, the angular range and associated wavelength range can be very small.
- An infrared localiser measures the angular deviation between the missile and the line-of-sight.
- The magnitude of the angular change associated with the transition from rigor to relaxation was similar for both light chains and amounted to less than 5 deg.
- The solution for the optical lithography industry is to offset birefringence by arranging different optical components at the proper angular orientations.
- Typically the driver turns the runners less than 5° to produce a lateral force on the front runners and an angular acceleration.
- The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field.
- The accelerometers and gyroscopes in an INS measure linear acceleration and angular orientation rates very accurately and with minimum time delay.
- Roads should be surfaced with crushed stone that is angular, so the sharp edges of the rocks compact into each other like pieces of a puzzle, helping to create a solid top layer.
- The oscillations of the scalar field around the flat angular direction of the scalar potential turn into longitudinal oscillations of the physical gauge field.
- Additional accelerometers can measure the vehicle's linear accelerations and angular acceleration about the spin axis.
- At this stage the rate of descent and particularly the angular rotation appeared to me to be very high and I was sure that ground impact in this configuration would have severe consequences.
- The physical scalar fields that oscillate as normal modes about the potential minimum are the massless angular mode and the massive radial mode.
- The crushing also produced a sharp sand with angular grains that made it far preferable as a bonding agent in mortar.
- The tilt sensors were comprised of 4 levels of unidirectional fixed inclinometers, used to measure the angular displacement between the levels.
- This ion has a single electron in its outer shell and its first excited energy level is split into a doublet as a result of interactions between the orbital and spin angular momenta of the electron.
- The students explained that this involved use of inertial sensors to sense the aircraft acceleration and angular rates.
- A rotary encoder is a digital input device used to measure angular rotation and direction.
3Astrology
Located in or relating to one of the houses that begin at the four cardinal points.
〔占星〕方位基点宫的
Example sentencesExamples
- As an item of personal property, the bag is signified by the 2nd-house ruler Venus, which is angular, showing it to be nearby.
- They all fall under the rulership of Venus, which in this chart is grounded in earth and tied into a grand trine involving angular Mars and Saturn.
- Venus and Mercury in conjunction are making a nice sextile to the angular Jupiter as well.
- In general, the movement of planets to angular positions in relocated charts is of greatest importance.
- Apart from a weak planet in an angular house, the thief can also be shown by the ruler of the seventh house.
- The ruler of the 1st house is Venus, dignified by term and in the angular 10th house.
- Of course, other factors tie into this, such as the exalted and angular Jupiter, ruler of his ascendant.
- Venus and Saturn would have to be considered since they are in angular houses.
- If this is the case but there is no aspect, yet the planet to which the Moon applies is angular, the pregnancy will be successful.
- Valens says that it is evident that the nativity is a notable one because all the triplicity rulers are in their own signs and two of them are angular.
- Because Mercury is angular it has - as the significator of illness - the power to do damage.
- In succedent or cadent houses, this opposition, while important, would not have taken on the same importance as when placed in angular houses.
- Fortunately, your Venus in Capricorn is strongly angular and in the exaltation of the ruler of your midheaven, Mars.
- Many planets of one person's chart fall into the angular houses of the other's natal chart.
- Three quarters of the charts had at least one angular planet, half had two or more and a quarter had three or more.
- However, Saturn is receiving a trine from an angular Moon which is placed in the terms of Mercury.
- With his angular Mars, 8th house Moon and Scorpio Sun, George S. Patton was born to take no prisoners.
- However, the Moon is angular and its forthcoming sextile to Mars offers a stronger argument that the father can find a will to resist disease.
- Mercury, triplicity ruler of the lights and ascendant, is angular and almuten.
- Those planets that are highlighted by having many aspects, hard aspects, in angular houses or outer planet conjunctions are good indicators of conflict.

Origin

Late Middle English (as an astrological term): from Latin angularis, from angulus (see angle).

单词	angular
释义	Definition of angular in English: angular adjectiveˈaŋɡjʊləˈæŋɡjələr 1Having angles or sharp corners. angular chairs 有方角的椅子。 Adam's angular black handwriting 亚当有棱有角的黑色手写体。 Example sentencesExamples In plan, the fort was of angular shape defined by five straight stretches of boundary. Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice. It was a compact, efficient two-seater with high ground clearance, sharp angular lines, and impressive torque running off a fission reactor. The door opened onto a catwalk overlooking the bay, where a sleek, angular, black ship was dominating the hangar. At night, the Carlton Hotel, like many other art deco hotels in Miami, emphasizes its sharp, angular geometric forms with colorful neon lights. Peck used locally quarried andesite, a brittle stone that fractures into sharp, angular shapes and has a sparkly surface. I don't know what I'm looking for so I just go through the pages pretty quick, and his handwriting is tiny and angular, and it all blurs together real fast. A high-cut red dress with circular strands of wool rope, and a white knitted tube with an abrupt, angular black panel just below were two highlights from this label. Where required, surfaces are smooth and curved rather than boxy and angular, further lending the outdoor levels an organic ambience. He then went on to make paintings where the outside shapes were angular instead of more familiar squares and rectangles. She whipped her hair back into a tail, and put on her black angular glasses. One shape should be sharp, angular and synthetic, while the other is soft, rounded and biomorphic. The odd and heavy feel of the wad of notes that his uncle had given to him was gone, but now in the money's place was a small box, soft and velvety to the touch, yet sharp and angular at the corners. The word ‘barbican’ describes a fortified outpost of gateway, and it is a good fit for the angular, sharp architecture of this London development. The pattern is an unusual long series of odd pointed / angular shapes, some of which appear roughly symmetrical. Some really give us a feeling that we're looking at something Picasso himself may have created, in terms of color and angular shapes. Finally he'd chosen an angular chair, covered with ice blue leather and facing the windows. Where the fuselage was smooth, this section was angular, like a flat topped pyramid attached to the end of the vessel. From the air the land would have looked like a jigsaw of angular green and brown shapes. One technique that designers often use is a series of angular walls that allow several rooms to look out on a rear view. Synonyms sharp-cornered, pointed, V-shaped, Y-shaped forked, bifurcate 1.1 (of a person or part of their body) lean and having a prominent bone structure. （人，身体部分）瘦骨嶙峋的 her angular face 她那瘦削的脸。 Example sentencesExamples Our faces are the same shape even though her features are more rounded and mine are pronounced and sort of angular in a way I don't like but all the boys seem to. With her gaze she traced his jaw, smooth and angular, edging up towards his eyes. His face was sharp and angular, and turned down in a deep scowl. In a matter of minutes the white shade went flying up to the ceiling and she could see his face, his sharp angular face. His cap cast a shadow over the top part of his face and accentuated the slightly angular shape of his jaws. A young man, his angular features sharp as if whittled by a knife, led the self-criticism. His face seemed to have been carved from the very stone around them, with sharp, angular features and a hawk-like nose. Their green faces were pinched and angular, with massive black eyes and tiny sharp teeth. His face was swelling, and his lip was torn, but his smooth, angular features were exquisite. The woman was somewhat plump with a sharp, angular face. It was of a tousle-haired blond boy, with sharp, angular features and laughing eyes. My gaze traveled upwards, taking in a smooth, angular jaw, full lips, and brilliant emerald eyes. Her features were beautiful sharp and angular. It was a sharp, angular face with high arching eyebrows and a mop of perfectly messy red-gold hair mixed with silvery gray crowing the head. He looks up at her face, pulling back his hood to reveal a sharp angular face with flame-like red hair. She could only make out the strong angular shape of his face. Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin. Her face was smooth and angular with arched eyebrows, but the most beautiful and strange thing about Anna was her hair. She was a tall and stately woman, with angular features and sharp eyes. Janssen, though beautiful, has no soft edges - her face is angular, her nose sharp, her amazing figure more sculpted than curved. Synonyms bony, raw-boned, skin-and-bones lean, rangy, spare, thin, lanky, spindly, skinny, gaunt, scrawny, scraggy informal looking like a bag of bones, anorexic, anorectic dated spindle-shanked rare gracile, macilent 2Physics Denoting physical properties or quantities measured with reference to or by means of an angle, especially those associated with rotation. 〔物理〕角度的，角的，用角度量的 angular acceleration 角加速度。 Example sentencesExamples Once the poles and the angular rotations are specified, the whole motion is completely determined. The solution for the optical lithography industry is to offset birefringence by arranging different optical components at the proper angular orientations. For highly perfect crystals, the angular range and associated wavelength range can be very small. One can learn all sorts of interesting things about the cosmological history of our universe from the angular spectrum of the cosmic background radiation. The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field. The tilt sensors were comprised of 4 levels of unidirectional fixed inclinometers, used to measure the angular displacement between the levels. The crushing also produced a sharp sand with angular grains that made it far preferable as a bonding agent in mortar. Additional accelerometers can measure the vehicle's linear accelerations and angular acceleration about the spin axis. The physical scalar fields that oscillate as normal modes about the potential minimum are the massless angular mode and the massive radial mode. An infrared localiser measures the angular deviation between the missile and the line-of-sight. The gyroscopes sense angular motion by measuring the Coriolis effect induced by rotation, using a vibrating MEMS structure. The oscillations of the scalar field around the flat angular direction of the scalar potential turn into longitudinal oscillations of the physical gauge field. A rotary encoder is a digital input device used to measure angular rotation and direction. The accelerometers and gyroscopes in an INS measure linear acceleration and angular orientation rates very accurately and with minimum time delay. Roads should be surfaced with crushed stone that is angular, so the sharp edges of the rocks compact into each other like pieces of a puzzle, helping to create a solid top layer. At this stage the rate of descent and particularly the angular rotation appeared to me to be very high and I was sure that ground impact in this configuration would have severe consequences. The students explained that this involved use of inertial sensors to sense the aircraft acceleration and angular rates. Typically the driver turns the runners less than 5° to produce a lateral force on the front runners and an angular acceleration. The magnitude of the angular change associated with the transition from rigor to relaxation was similar for both light chains and amounted to less than 5 deg. This ion has a single electron in its outer shell and its first excited energy level is split into a doublet as a result of interactions between the orbital and spin angular momenta of the electron. 3Astrology Relating to or denoting any of the houses that begin at the four cardinal points of a chart. 〔占星〕方位基点宫的 Example sentencesExamples In general, the movement of planets to angular positions in relocated charts is of greatest importance. However, Saturn is receiving a trine from an angular Moon which is placed in the terms of Mercury. As an item of personal property, the bag is signified by the 2nd-house ruler Venus, which is angular, showing it to be nearby. Apart from a weak planet in an angular house, the thief can also be shown by the ruler of the seventh house. Because Mercury is angular it has - as the significator of illness - the power to do damage. If this is the case but there is no aspect, yet the planet to which the Moon applies is angular, the pregnancy will be successful. With his angular Mars, 8th house Moon and Scorpio Sun, George S. Patton was born to take no prisoners. They all fall under the rulership of Venus, which in this chart is grounded in earth and tied into a grand trine involving angular Mars and Saturn. Many planets of one person's chart fall into the angular houses of the other's natal chart. However, the Moon is angular and its forthcoming sextile to Mars offers a stronger argument that the father can find a will to resist disease. Venus and Mercury in conjunction are making a nice sextile to the angular Jupiter as well. Those planets that are highlighted by having many aspects, hard aspects, in angular houses or outer planet conjunctions are good indicators of conflict. The ruler of the 1st house is Venus, dignified by term and in the angular 10th house. In succedent or cadent houses, this opposition, while important, would not have taken on the same importance as when placed in angular houses. Three quarters of the charts had at least one angular planet, half had two or more and a quarter had three or more. Venus and Saturn would have to be considered since they are in angular houses. Mercury, triplicity ruler of the lights and ascendant, is angular and almuten. Fortunately, your Venus in Capricorn is strongly angular and in the exaltation of the ruler of your midheaven, Mars. Valens says that it is evident that the nativity is a notable one because all the triplicity rulers are in their own signs and two of them are angular. Of course, other factors tie into this, such as the exalted and angular Jupiter, ruler of his ascendant. Derivatives angularity nounˌaŋɡjʊˈlarətiˌæŋɡjəˈlɛrədi Lee says that what people remembered about Woolf was: ‘Her thinness, her fine bones, her fragility, […] and her mixture of angularity and awkwardness.’ Example sentencesExamples Perhaps it is enough to experience this building as a piece of urban sculpture, seamlessly wrapping the street and offsetting the Gothic angularity of its surrounding churches. The degree of segregation depends on particle size distribution, density, and possibly angularity of heterogeneous sand mixtures. In other words, these are not ‘folk-tune settings,’ although one could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the plainspoken roughness and angularity of Veress's music. In contrast, the sharpness of the edges of the individual grains or their angularity records the history of the grain during transport and, to a lesser extent, during diagenesis. Gringolts shows maturity beyond his 21 years in his rich phrasing of the boldly romantic Sibelius and the prickly angularity of the Prokofiev. The melodic richness and astringent angularity of Sibelius's muse are in full bloom in his Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47. Dimples, especially on the chin, also increase the angularity and definition of the male face, creating the impression of a strong visage. At times, the dancers appear to be flying or diving; at others, they move with the spasmodic angularity attributed to robots, their faces expressionless masks. The effect is a uniquely bucolic landscape art, as rich in natural detail as it is in quasi-mystical symbolism, and painted with an angularity derived partly from Wyndham Lewis and partly from the Pole Jankel Adler. One boy's picture captures perfectly the blocky angularity and monumental presence of Lawrence's three ironing women. This face looks best in finer frames that don't draw attention to any heaviness or angularity. Like many critics of Federation Square, this guy emphasised the harshness, angularity and general uninvitingness of the development. With its succinct, buoyant melodies and sparse angularity, Kirby Sideroad brings to mind Ornette Coleman's early quartet music. First, take the fashion model angularity of Nicole Mourier and Mia Dime, and transplant them to the Berlin underground art scene. The light grey plastic shell is reduced to simple flat planes, but the angularity is softened by rounded edges and corners. The rhythmic angularity of the recontextualized rift imparts a temporary sense of disorientation that subverts the song's forward momentum. The angularity of his original Quintergy contrasts with the languid fluency of the following track, Lament. Initial porosity in well-sorted sand also is dependent on grain angularity, the porosity increasing with increase in angularity. angularly adverb A fourth group extends angularly from the fourth common plane toward the front end in a fourth common oblique plane to form a fourth terminal edge which extends beyond the third terminal edge. Example sentencesExamples We found that the index of refraction used for the material comprising the core was very important in terms of the resulting angularly resolved scattering signatures. Hence, tests were one-tailed. t-Tests were performed on angularly transformed O allele frequencies with each population mean taken as a datum (n = 3 populations/selection regime). But Mrs Rocatti better arrive soon, before Dundee's angularly athletic goalkeeper earns himself a move elsewhere. Irradiation of aminolevulinic acid/protoporphyrin IX-sensitized cells with 10 J cm - 2 of 514 nm light led to pronounced changes in angularly resolved light scattering consistent with mitochondrial swelling. She stands strong and dignified, with her sinewy and angularly carved face turning slightly away as though just having taken another unavoidable look at a painful past. We constructed a goniometer to measure angularly resolved light scattering. I used parametric tests on angularly transformed data. The experimental setup uses a standard OCT system with an additional apparatus to rotate the sample to acquire multiple angularly displaced OCT images (displaced-reflector images). In the holographic glass approach, multiple holograms are angularly multiplexed in glass to produce large-angle deflections. Origin Late Middle English (as an astrological term): from Latin angularis, from angulus (see angle¹). Rhymes quadrangular, rectangular, triangular Definition of angular in US English: angular adjectiveˈaNGɡyələrˈæŋɡjələr 1(of an object, outline, or shape) having angles or sharp corners. （物体、轮廓和形状）有角的，有尖角的 angular chairs 有方角的椅子。 Adam's angular black handwriting 亚当有棱有角的黑色手写体。 Example sentencesExamples The word ‘barbican’ describes a fortified outpost of gateway, and it is a good fit for the angular, sharp architecture of this London development. A high-cut red dress with circular strands of wool rope, and a white knitted tube with an abrupt, angular black panel just below were two highlights from this label. The odd and heavy feel of the wad of notes that his uncle had given to him was gone, but now in the money's place was a small box, soft and velvety to the touch, yet sharp and angular at the corners. Everything about the tower was sharp, angular, like the harsh contortions of a concentrated face lined with spite and malice. Where required, surfaces are smooth and curved rather than boxy and angular, further lending the outdoor levels an organic ambience. It was a compact, efficient two-seater with high ground clearance, sharp angular lines, and impressive torque running off a fission reactor. One shape should be sharp, angular and synthetic, while the other is soft, rounded and biomorphic. Finally he'd chosen an angular chair, covered with ice blue leather and facing the windows. At night, the Carlton Hotel, like many other art deco hotels in Miami, emphasizes its sharp, angular geometric forms with colorful neon lights. Some really give us a feeling that we're looking at something Picasso himself may have created, in terms of color and angular shapes. In plan, the fort was of angular shape defined by five straight stretches of boundary. One technique that designers often use is a series of angular walls that allow several rooms to look out on a rear view. She whipped her hair back into a tail, and put on her black angular glasses. From the air the land would have looked like a jigsaw of angular green and brown shapes. The door opened onto a catwalk overlooking the bay, where a sleek, angular, black ship was dominating the hangar. Where the fuselage was smooth, this section was angular, like a flat topped pyramid attached to the end of the vessel. Peck used locally quarried andesite, a brittle stone that fractures into sharp, angular shapes and has a sparkly surface. He then went on to make paintings where the outside shapes were angular instead of more familiar squares and rectangles. I don't know what I'm looking for so I just go through the pages pretty quick, and his handwriting is tiny and angular, and it all blurs together real fast. The pattern is an unusual long series of odd pointed / angular shapes, some of which appear roughly symmetrical. Synonyms sharp-cornered, pointed, v-shaped, y-shaped 1.1 (of a person or part of their body) lean and having a prominent bone structure. （人，身体部分）瘦骨嶙峋的 her angular face 她那瘦削的脸。 Example sentencesExamples He looks up at her face, pulling back his hood to reveal a sharp angular face with flame-like red hair. His cap cast a shadow over the top part of his face and accentuated the slightly angular shape of his jaws. She could only make out the strong angular shape of his face. In a matter of minutes the white shade went flying up to the ceiling and she could see his face, his sharp angular face. Janssen, though beautiful, has no soft edges - her face is angular, her nose sharp, her amazing figure more sculpted than curved. His face was sharp and angular, and turned down in a deep scowl. It was of a tousle-haired blond boy, with sharp, angular features and laughing eyes. Her features were beautiful sharp and angular. The woman was somewhat plump with a sharp, angular face. Our faces are the same shape even though her features are more rounded and mine are pronounced and sort of angular in a way I don't like but all the boys seem to. She was a tall and stately woman, with angular features and sharp eyes. My gaze traveled upwards, taking in a smooth, angular jaw, full lips, and brilliant emerald eyes. It was a sharp, angular face with high arching eyebrows and a mop of perfectly messy red-gold hair mixed with silvery gray crowing the head. With her gaze she traced his jaw, smooth and angular, edging up towards his eyes. Their green faces were pinched and angular, with massive black eyes and tiny sharp teeth. His face seemed to have been carved from the very stone around them, with sharp, angular features and a hawk-like nose. A young man, his angular features sharp as if whittled by a knife, led the self-criticism. His face was swelling, and his lip was torn, but his smooth, angular features were exquisite. Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin. Her face was smooth and angular with arched eyebrows, but the most beautiful and strange thing about Anna was her hair. Synonyms bony, raw-boned, skin-and-bones 1.2 (of a person's way of moving) not flowing smoothly; awkward or jerky. his movements were stiff and angular figurative the music is angular and sardonic Example sentencesExamples The cast bursts into and out of the wings with jerky, angular jumps, as if someone were pulling hard on their strings. The dance consisted of jerky, angular movements which frequently gave way to Kwan's fluid ease. But ever since women became interested in breakdancing, they've brought a new way of moving to it - more angular, graceful and fluid, and more feminine. This ballet had no scenery, angular choreography, and the Stravinsky music, and it was jarring to me as a 12-year-old. I'd imagine it would look something like the Elaine Benes full-body seizure, so jerky and angular that you can't help but cheer. The red pair moves more like their rustic colleagues, with big and rather angular movements. 2Physics Denoting physical properties or quantities measured with reference to or by means of an angle, especially those associated with rotation. 〔物理〕角度的，角的，用角度量的 angular acceleration 角加速度。 Example sentencesExamples One can learn all sorts of interesting things about the cosmological history of our universe from the angular spectrum of the cosmic background radiation. Once the poles and the angular rotations are specified, the whole motion is completely determined. The gyroscopes sense angular motion by measuring the Coriolis effect induced by rotation, using a vibrating MEMS structure. For highly perfect crystals, the angular range and associated wavelength range can be very small. An infrared localiser measures the angular deviation between the missile and the line-of-sight. The magnitude of the angular change associated with the transition from rigor to relaxation was similar for both light chains and amounted to less than 5 deg. The solution for the optical lithography industry is to offset birefringence by arranging different optical components at the proper angular orientations. Typically the driver turns the runners less than 5° to produce a lateral force on the front runners and an angular acceleration. The x-ray photons trigger the ejection of krypton electrons with varying angular distributions of momenta modulated by the oscillating laser field. The accelerometers and gyroscopes in an INS measure linear acceleration and angular orientation rates very accurately and with minimum time delay. Roads should be surfaced with crushed stone that is angular, so the sharp edges of the rocks compact into each other like pieces of a puzzle, helping to create a solid top layer. The oscillations of the scalar field around the flat angular direction of the scalar potential turn into longitudinal oscillations of the physical gauge field. Additional accelerometers can measure the vehicle's linear accelerations and angular acceleration about the spin axis. At this stage the rate of descent and particularly the angular rotation appeared to me to be very high and I was sure that ground impact in this configuration would have severe consequences. The physical scalar fields that oscillate as normal modes about the potential minimum are the massless angular mode and the massive radial mode. The crushing also produced a sharp sand with angular grains that made it far preferable as a bonding agent in mortar. The tilt sensors were comprised of 4 levels of unidirectional fixed inclinometers, used to measure the angular displacement between the levels. This ion has a single electron in its outer shell and its first excited energy level is split into a doublet as a result of interactions between the orbital and spin angular momenta of the electron. The students explained that this involved use of inertial sensors to sense the aircraft acceleration and angular rates. A rotary encoder is a digital input device used to measure angular rotation and direction. 3Astrology Located in or relating to one of the houses that begin at the four cardinal points. 〔占星〕方位基点宫的 Example sentencesExamples As an item of personal property, the bag is signified by the 2nd-house ruler Venus, which is angular, showing it to be nearby. They all fall under the rulership of Venus, which in this chart is grounded in earth and tied into a grand trine involving angular Mars and Saturn. Venus and Mercury in conjunction are making a nice sextile to the angular Jupiter as well. In general, the movement of planets to angular positions in relocated charts is of greatest importance. Apart from a weak planet in an angular house, the thief can also be shown by the ruler of the seventh house. The ruler of the 1st house is Venus, dignified by term and in the angular 10th house. Of course, other factors tie into this, such as the exalted and angular Jupiter, ruler of his ascendant. Venus and Saturn would have to be considered since they are in angular houses. If this is the case but there is no aspect, yet the planet to which the Moon applies is angular, the pregnancy will be successful. Valens says that it is evident that the nativity is a notable one because all the triplicity rulers are in their own signs and two of them are angular. Because Mercury is angular it has - as the significator of illness - the power to do damage. In succedent or cadent houses, this opposition, while important, would not have taken on the same importance as when placed in angular houses. Fortunately, your Venus in Capricorn is strongly angular and in the exaltation of the ruler of your midheaven, Mars. Many planets of one person's chart fall into the angular houses of the other's natal chart. Three quarters of the charts had at least one angular planet, half had two or more and a quarter had three or more. However, Saturn is receiving a trine from an angular Moon which is placed in the terms of Mercury. With his angular Mars, 8th house Moon and Scorpio Sun, George S. Patton was born to take no prisoners. However, the Moon is angular and its forthcoming sextile to Mars offers a stronger argument that the father can find a will to resist disease. Mercury, triplicity ruler of the lights and ascendant, is angular and almuten. Those planets that are highlighted by having many aspects, hard aspects, in angular houses or outer planet conjunctions are good indicators of conflict. Origin Late Middle English (as an astrological term): from Latin angularis, from angulus (see angle).
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