Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 244 (Angularity)

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#244. Angularity. -- N. angularity, angularness[obs]; aduncity[obs]; angle, cusp, bend; fold &c. 258; notch &c. 257; fork, bifurcation.

elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo[obs], akimbo.

corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel[Arch], coign[obs].

right angle &c. (perpendicular) 216a, 212; obliquity &c. 217; angle of 45x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle.

angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry[obs]; clinometer, graphometer[obs], goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.

triangle, trigon[obs], wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond; rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature; polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon[obs], decagon.

pyramid, cone.

Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid; parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.

V. bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.

Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous[obs], uncinated[obs], aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform[obs], falcated[obs]; furcated[obs], forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular[obs]; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo[obs], geniculated[obs]; oblique &c. 217.

fusiform[Microb], wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate[obs], multangular[obs], oxygonal[obs]; triangular, trigonal[obs], trilateral; quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral; polygonal &c. n.; cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.