angularity

Roget category 244

2. Words relating to space
› 2.3. Form
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#244. Angularity

noun

angularity, angularness^† — aduncity^† — angle, cusp, bend — fold etc. 258 — notch etc. 257 — fork, bifurcation.
elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo^†, akimbo.
corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel [Arch.], coign^†.
right angle etc. (perpendicular) 216.1, 212 — obliquity etc. 217 — angle of 45 degrees, miter — acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.
angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity — trigonometry, goniometry — altimetry^† — clinometer, graphometer^†, goniometer — theodolite — sextant, quadrant — dichotomy.
triangle, trigon^†, wedge — rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond — rhomb, rhombus — quadrangle, quadrilateral — parallelogram — quadrature — polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon^†, decagon.
pyramid, cone.
Platonic bodies — cube, rhomboid — tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron — prism, pyramid — parallelopiped — curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.

verb

bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.

adjective

angular, bent, crooked, aduncous^†, uncinated^†, aquiline, jagged, serrated — falciform^†, falcated^† — furcated^†, forked, bifurcate, zigzag — furcular^† — hooked — dovetailed — knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo^†, geniculated^† — oblique etc. 217.
fusiform [Micro.], wedge-shaped, cuneiform — cuneate^†, multangular^†, oxygonal^† — triangular, trigonal^†, trilateral — quadrangular, quadrilateral — foursquare — rectangular, square, multilateral — polygonal etc. n. — cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.

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