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obliquity
noun pl. obliquities
- the state or quality of being oblique
- an oblique statement, action, etc.
- a turning aside from moral conduct or sound thinking
- Astron. the angle between the planes of a planet's equator and its orbit about the sun: for the earth () it is currently c. 23° 26.5′ and will decrease at the rate of 0.47″ a year for c. 1,500 years, at which time it will begin to increase again
- Math.
- deviation of a line or plane from the perpendicular or parallel
- the degree of this
Related Forms:
- obliquitous adjective
See obliquity in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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