double-oblique

adjective

Combining or including two oblique angles.

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Meanings

adjectivedouble-oblique (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCombining or including two oblique angles.

    Figure 1(a) shows a novel translating follower having double oblique flat-faced configuration.

    2019, Chin-Hsing Kuo, Pei-Chun Lin, Terence Essomba, Robotics and Mechatronics, page 165
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    In certain other molluscan muscles, however, Marceau (1908) observed double-oblique striations which could not be ascribed to the presence of spirally wound, homogeneous fibrils.

    1958, J Bowden, “The Structure and Innervation of Lamellibranch Muscle”, in International Review of Cytology, volume 7, page 319

    In double oblique angulations, the first rotation is chosen about the vertical image axis and the second about the (new) horizontal axis.

    2007, Maximilian F Reiser, Wolfhard Semmler, Hedvig Hricak, Magnetic Resonance Tomography, page 1451

    These applications include the startup of a supersonic test section, single and double oblique shock diffusers, supersonic airfoils, and supersonic nozzles.

    2021, Forrest E. Ames, Clement C. Tang, An Introduction to Compressible Flow, page 139
  2. not comparableraregrammarAligning the agent and object in nonergative tenses but aligning the subject and object in ergative tenses.

    Even less common is the double-oblique type, found in certain Pamir languages (Payne 1980), Kashmiri and Pashto (Bubenik 1989b).

    1998, Vit Bubenik, A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan, page 224
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    The historical origin of the double-oblique system can be easily reconstructed: the transitive past with its characteristic double-oblique form as shown in (53) was originally ergative, with an oblique A and an absolutive O.

    2002, N.E. Collinge, An Encyclopedia of Language
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