right-angled
Corner-shaped, perfectly square
Right-angled describes something containing or formed by a right angle—an angle of exactly ninety degrees.
A right-angled triangle has one corner where the sides meet at ninety degrees.
The shelves were right-angled to the wall.
The term appears most often in geometry and carpentry.
At right angles
- hypotenuseLongest right-triangle side
- adjacentDirectly next to
- oppositeReverse or contrary thing
- triangleThree-sided plane figure
theorem · protractor · vertex · bisector · isosceles · scalene · quadrilateral · parallelogram
Meeting point of edges
- miterTall liturgical headdress
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- carpentryWood construction trade
- jointShared by multiple parties
bracket · intersection · edge · abutment · joist · beam · drywall · molding
Of x-y coordinate geometry
- axesHeaded chopping tools
- orthonormalPerpendicular and unit-length
- vectorsDirected magnitude quantities
- gridFramework of intersecting lines
lattice · perpendicular · quadrant · octant · projection · basis · x-axis · y-axis
perpendicular
At right angles
- hypotenuseLongest right-triangle side
- adjacentDirectly next to
- oppositeReverse or contrary thing
triangle · theorem · protractor · vertex · bisector · isosceles · scalene · quadrilateral · parallelogram · trigonometry
corner
Meeting point of edges
- miterTall liturgical headdress
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
- carpentryWood construction trade
joint · bracket · intersection · edge · abutment · joist · beam · drywall · molding · baseboard
Cartesian
Of x-y coordinate geometry
- axesHeaded chopping tools
- orthonormalPerpendicular and unit-length
- vectorsDirected magnitude quantities
grid · lattice · perpendicular · quadrant · octant · projection · basis · x-axis · y-axis · origin
right-angledacute-angled
Having only narrow angles
obtuse-angled · acute · obtuse · oblique · skewed
right-angledcircular
Forming a closed curve
round · curved · rounded · curvilinear · elliptical
right, angle, angled, rectangle, angular, rectitude, rectangular