Word Meanings - OBLIQUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. 2. Deviation from ordinary rules;

Additional info about word: OBLIQUITY

1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. 2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. To disobey ...imports a moral obliquity. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBLIQUITY)

• Refraction
• Disradiation
• obliquity

Related words: (words related to OBLIQUITY)

• OBLIQUITY
  1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. 2. Deviation from ordinary rules;
• REFRACTION
  1. The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted. 2. The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved. Refraction out