ANGULARITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angularity mean? 

• ANGULARITY (noun)
  The noun ANGULARITY has 2 senses:

1. a shape having one or more sharp angles

2. the property possessed by a shape that has angles

  Familiarity information: ANGULARITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGULARITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shape having one or more sharp angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

angular shape; angularity

Hypernyms ("angularity" is a kind of...):

form; shape (the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angularity"):

forking; furcation (the place where something divides into branches)

jog (a sharp change in direction)

zag; zig; zigzag (an angular shape characterized by sharp turns in alternating directions)

bend; crease; crimp; flexure; fold; plication (an angular or rounded shape made by folding)

Derivation:

angular (having angles or an angular shape)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property possessed by a shape that has angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("angularity" is a kind of...):

configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angularity"):

oblongness; rectangularity (the property of being shaped like a rectangle)

triangularity (the property of being shaped like a triangle)

Antonym:

roundness (the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular)

Derivation:

angular (having angles or an angular shape)