Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The formation of angles.
- noun An angular part, position, or formation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A formation of angles; the state of being angulated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A making angular; angular formation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
formation ofangles . - noun An
angular part, position, orformation . - noun The formation of an
abnormal angle orbend in an organ
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the precise measurement of angles
- noun the act of making angulate (having corners)
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Examples
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There are three general movements that skiers use to manipulate a ski: twist, or rotation around the vertical axis; tilt, or turning a ski up on its side (called "angulation"); and applying or releasing pressure to the ski (skiers also adjust where on the ski the center of pressure is, by moving their center of gravity forward and backward over the ski).
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries JGstott 2010
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(such as angulation, cavernosal fibrosis or Peyronie's disease), or in patients who have conditions which may predispose them to Priapism (such as sickle cell anemia, multiple myeloma, or leukemia).
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Directly improve alignment of the bones/joints with canting to prevent inward rotation and angulation.
VeloNews Training Center: Can orthotics help my sore back? 2010
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Decreasing the inward angulation or valgus of the knee may help to limit an inappropriate forward rocking of the pelvis and thus decrease the relative extension occuring at the junction between pelvis and lumbar spine.
VeloNews Training Center: Can orthotics help my sore back? 2010
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It can be comminuted (insert number of fragments), compound, angulated (insert degree of angulation), spiral, oblique, transverse, epiphyseal (four main types), diaphyseal or other things.
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The size, depth, location, and angulation of the traction pinhole.
Spider Bones Kathy Reichs 2010
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The slight angulation or keel of the body whorl is visible in the picture below.
Archive 2008-08-01 AYDIN 2008
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The known Anguispira species are conchologically variable, especially in spire height and peripheral angulation of the body whorl.
Discidae AYDIN 2008
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The slight angulation or keel of the body whorl is visible in the picture below.
Discus catskillensis AYDIN 2008
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The known Anguispira species are conchologically variable, especially in spire height and peripheral angulation of the body whorl.
Archive 2008-05-01 AYDIN 2008
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