The conversation had roamed in a desultory spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic.
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Obliquity
//əˈblɪkwɪti//
Synonyms for "obliquity" (91 found)
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Noun(16 words)
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24 translations across 9 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λοξότης noun (quality of being oblique)
Bulgarian
3 entries- наклоненост noun (quality of being oblique)
- полегатост noun (quality of being oblique)
- простъпка noun (mental or moral deviation)
Catalan
1 entries- obliqüitat noun (quality of being oblique)
Finnish
4 entries- akselin kaltevuus noun ((astronomy) axial tilt)
- kieroutuneisuus noun (mental or moral deviation)
- pahe noun (mental or moral deviation)
- vinous noun (quality of being oblique)
French
1 entries- obliquité noun (quality of being oblique)
Greek
1 entries- λοξότητα noun (quality of being oblique)
Latin
1 entries- obliquitas noun (quality of being oblique)
Portuguese
2 entries- obliquidade noun (quality of being oblique)
- obliquidade noun (mental or moral deviation)
Russian
4 entries- конусность noun (quality of being oblique)
- косое направле́ние noun (quality of being oblique)
- накло́н noun (quality of being oblique)
- накло́н о́си враще́ния noun ((astronomy) axial tilt)
Sample sentences
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On his return to Greece he founded the Ionian school, and taught the sphericity of the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the true causes of eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
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The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities
Source: wiktionary
Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah’s room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
Source: wiktionary
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