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Created on 2002-12-22 20:51:44 (#823253), last updated 2003-10-24

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o·blique ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-blk, -blk)
adj.

1. Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
2. Mathematics. Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.
3. Botany. Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.
4. Anatomy. Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal: oblique muscles or ligaments.

5. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.
6. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.
7. Not direct in descent; collateral.
Grammar. Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.

n.
8. An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.
9. Nautical. The act of changing course by less than 90°.

10. adv. (-blk, -blk)
At an angle of 45°.


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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin oblquus.]
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