angular
pronunciation
How to pronounce angular in British English:
UK [ˈæŋgjələ(r)]
How to pronounce angular in American English:
US [ˈæŋɡjəlɚ]
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- Adjective:
- measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- having angles or an angular shape
Word Origin
- angular (adj.)
- 1590s, from Latin angularis "having corners or angles," from angulus (see angle (n.)). Earlier in an astrological sense, "occupying a cardinal point of the zodiac" (late 14c.). Angulous "having many corners" is from mid-15c.
Example
- 1. Anyway , that shows the relationship between the angle and the radius and angular speed .
- 2. Janice their supervisor a tall and angular woman who took pride in her extreme fairness and efficiency came for a routine inspection once a week ; dr. wilson the attending veterinarian a genial and absent-minded man was about to retire any day now .
- 3. According to their explanation , the distance between the earth and sun is growing because the sun is losing its angular momentum .
- 4. Giving photons orbital angular momentum means twisting a beam 's wavefront so that , as the beam travels forward , its wavefront rotates around the propagation axis .
- 5. A paper by martin tajmar et al.in 2006 claims detection of an artificial gravitational field around a rotating superconductor , proportional to the angular acceleration of the superconductor .