double-oblique
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Combining or including two oblique angles.
Example Sentences
- "In certain other molluscan muscles, however, Marceau (1908) observed double-oblique striations which could not be ascribed to the presence of spirally wound, homogeneous fibrils."
- "In double oblique angulations, the first rotation is chosen about the vertical image axis and the second about the (new) horizontal axis."
- "Figure 1(a) shows a novel translating follower having double oblique flat-faced configuration."
- "These applications include the startup of a supersonic test section, single and double oblique shock diffusers, supersonic airfoils, and supersonic nozzles."
- "Even less common is the double-oblique type, found in certain Pamir languages (Payne 1980), Kashmiri and Pashto (Bubenik 1989b)."
- "The historical origin of the double-oblique system can be easily reconstructed: the transitive past with its characteristic double-oblique form as shown in (53) was originally ergative, with an oblique A and an absolutive O."