ANGULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angular mean? 

• ANGULAR (adjective)
  The adjective ANGULAR has 2 senses:

1. measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle

2. having angles or an angular shape

  Familiarity information: ANGULAR used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

angular momentum

Pertainym:

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

Derivation:

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having angles or an angular shape

Synonyms:

angular; angulate

Similar:

angled (forming or set at an angle)

asteroid; star-shaped (shaped like a star)

bicuspid; bicuspidate (having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth))

cuspate; cuspated; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated (having cusps or points)

equiangular (having all angles equal)

isogonic (having or making equal angles)

rectangular (having four right angles)

sharp-angled; sharp-cornered (having sharp corners)

square-shaped (shaped like a square)

three-cornered (having three corners)

triangular (having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle)

tricuspid; tricuspidate (having three cusps or points (especially a molar tooth))

unicuspid (having a single cusp or point)

Also:

pointed (having a point)

square (having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle)

Antonym:

rounded (curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged)

Derivation:

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

angularity (the property possessed by a shape that has angles)

angularity (a shape having one or more sharp angles)

 Context examples 

The inferior parietal convolution further divides into the supra-marginal and angular convolutions.

(Inferior Parietal Convolution, NCI Thesaurus)

The blood vessels that drain blood from the inferior eyelid into the angular vein.

(Inferior Palpebral Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

An angular or rounded shape made by folding.

(Flexure, NCI Thesaurus)

A vein in the face accompanying the facial artery that is a direct continuation of the angular vein and ultimately empties into the internal jugular vein.

(Facial Vein, NCI Thesaurus)

The angular distance north or south between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself.

(Latitude, NCI Thesaurus)

A chronic, atrophic skin disease characterized by white, angular, flat, well-defined, indurated papules with an erythematous halo and follicular, black, keratotic plugs.

(Lichen Sclerosus et Atrophicus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

She raised up a panel which was leaning against the wall, and showed a rude painting of a scraggy and angular fowl, with very long legs and a spotted body.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slanting or inclined in direction or course or position; neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angular.

(Oblique, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of angular measure equal to 1/60 degree or to 60 arcseconds.

(Minute Unit of Plane Angle, NCI Thesaurus)

I noticed a tall, thin, angular man seated in an arm-chair by the fire.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)