biangular

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ angular.

Adjective

biangular (not comparable)

1. Having two angles or corners.
   • 1965, Willard Rouse Jillson, Biangular Faulting in the Outer Bluegrass Region of Northern Kentucky, page 5:

     Too long unknown, unmapped and undescribed, a fault block of broad, biangular pattern has recently been outlined lying athwart the lower waters of Drennon Creek in north-eastern Henry County, Kentucky.

   • 2020, Slavik Tabakov, Franco Milano, Perry Sprawls, Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics, page 87:

     X-ray tubes with biangular anode discs are used for dual focus tubes, where there is a need of very small effective focal spot.

2. (mathematics) Having exactly two angular structures, operations, coordinates, or relative positions.

   a biangular circle

   • 2022, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro, Distributed Computing by Oblivious Mobile Robots, page 87:

     Before proceeding with the Uniform Circle Formation problem, let us consider a less restricted version of that problem, the biangular circle formation: The robots must be placed on the boundary of a circle at intervals forming a biangular configuration (refer to Chapter 3).

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Spanish

Adjective

biangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural biangulares)

1. biangular

Further reading

• “biangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024