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obliquity - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun noun noun noun noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun
Etymologies
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From Middle French obliquité , from Latin obliquitas , from obliquus ("oblique").
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In most of the terms obliquity and mystery are the chief emphasis.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
The plane of the Ecliptic is inclined to that of the Equinoctial at an angle of 23° 27-1/2 ', and this inclination is called the obliquity of the
Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919
Cutting through the obliquity , which is formidable, his ever-changing "deadline" will be adjusted if realities on the ground so dictate.
Balderdash 2008
The plane of the equator makes an angle of approximately 23.43 0 with the ecliptic plane; this angle is known as the obliquity of the ecliptic.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
Cutting through the obliquity , which is formidable, his ever-changing "deadline" will be adjusted if realities on the ground so dictate.
Balderdash 2008
Somehow Emin goes beyond; with her, it's as if Warhol and Valerie Solanas were rolled into the same person, but minus his posture of obliquity and spaciness, minus the violent fixity of her political focus.
Tracey Emin: 'What you see is what I am' 2011
After the funeral, flowers, trees, the natural world in which I sought comfort folded into obliquity .
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
After the funeral, flowers, trees, the natural world in which I sought comfort folded into obliquity .
History of a Suicide Jill Bialosky 2011
Eyes large and fairly wide apart, with just the faintest hint of Mongol obliquity .
IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH 2010
January 3rd, 2010 at 9: 40 am urgs, was your coinage of the phrase “just a little blimp in time” intentional, or just a Freudian obliquity invoking the “bubble” nature of what our economy has become? change Says:
Matthew Yglesias » The Right’s Growth Record 2010
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