Definitions for right-angle

right-angle right angle

Right-Angle is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 751 anagrams from letters in right-angle (-aegghilnrt).

Definitions for right-angle

noun

  1. the angle formed by two radii of a circle that are drawn to the extremities of an arc equal to one quarter of the circle; the angle formed by two perpendicular lines that intersect; an angle of 90°.

Origin of right-angle

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400

Examples for right-angle

For right lines perpendicular are the makers of a right angle, as is manifest by the 13.

An obtuse angle is an oblique angle greater then a right angle.

Acute: pointed: terminating in or forming less than a right angle.

A right angle is a parallelogramme that hath all his angles right angles.

Fruit often reddish, small, with the wings at about a right angle.

And here hence you must understand by one right angle that all are right angles.

Love insisted the feathers be ruffled just enough, the eyes be at just the right angle.

But this log was going down at a right angle to the bank instead of parallel to it.

Concluding that he now had the pistol at the right angle, he pulled the trigger.

As in the triangle aei: For they are both equall to one right angle, by the 13.

Word Value for right-angle
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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