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biangular

biangular adjective: having two angles or corners.

Adjective

biangular (not comparable)

  1. Having two angles or corners.
    • Too long unknown, unmapped and undescribed, a fault block of broad, biangular pattern has recently been outlined lying athwart the lower waters of Drennon Creek in north-eastern Henry County, Kentucky.1965, Willard Rouse Jillson, Biangular Faulting in the Outer Bluegrass Region of Northern Kentucky, page 5
    • X-ray tubes with biangular anode discs are used for dual focus tubes, where there is a need of very small effective focal spot.2020, Slavik Tabakov, Franco Milano, Perry Sprawls, Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics, page 87
  2. Having exactly two angular structures, operations, coordinates, or relative positions.
    • a biangular circle
    • Before proceeding with the Uniform Circle Formation problem, let us consider a less restricted version of that problem, the biangular circle formation: The robots must be placed on the boundary of a circle at intervals forming a biangular configuration (refer to Chapter 3).2022, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro, Distributed Computing by Oblivious Mobile Robots, page 87

Origin of biangular

From bi- + angular.

Questions about biangular

What does biangular mean?
Biangular means having two angles or corners.
What part of speech is biangular?
Biangular is an adjective.

Words near biangular in the dictionary

  1. biandry
  2. Biangan
  3. biangbiang noodles
  4. biangle
  5. biangles
  6. biangular
  7. biangulate
  8. biangulated
  9. biangulates
  10. biangulating
  11. biangulation

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