angular

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: an=gu=lar

CIDE DICTIONARY

angular, a. [L. angularis, fr. angulus angle, corner. See Angle.].

•  Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.  [1913 Webster]
•  Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.  [1913 Webster]
•  Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.  [1913 Webster]

Angular aperture, Angular distance. See Aperture, Distance. -- Angular motion, the motion of a body about a fixed point or fixed axis, as of a planet or pendulum. It is equal to the angle passed over at the point or axis by a line drawn to the body. -- Angular point, the point at which the sides of the angle meet; the vertex. -- Angular velocity, the ratio of anuglar motion to the time employed in describing.

angular, n. 

 A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

angular, adj.
1 a having angles or sharp corners. b (of a person) having sharp features; lean and bony. c awkward in manner.
2 forming an angle.
3 measured by angle (angular distance).

Idiom

angular momentum the quantity of rotation of a body, the product of its moment of inertia and angular velocity. angular velocity the rate of change of angular position of a rotating body.

Derivative

angularity n. angularly adv.

Etymology

L angularis f. angulus ANGLE(1)

THESAURUS

angular

V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, bent, bony, cornered, crooked, crotched, crude, forked, furcal, furcate, gaunt, geniculate, geniculated, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, lank, lanky, pointed, raw, rawboned, rough, roughhewn, rude, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scraggy, scrawny, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, skinny, spare, undressed, unfashioned, unfinished, unpolished, unworked, weedy, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

angular

Angularity

N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.