(n.) The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
(n.) The figure made by. two lines which meet.
(n.) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
(n.) A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
(n.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
(n.) A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod.
(v. i.) To fish with an angle (fishhook), or with hook and line.
(v. i.) To use some bait or artifice; to intrigue; to scheme; as, to angle for praise.
(v. t.) To try to gain by some insinuating artifice; to allure.
Example Sentences:
(1) A slight varus angle of 2.1 degrees became apparent.
(2) The optimal size for stimulation was between 5 degrees and 12 degrees (visual angle).
(3) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
(4) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(5) Angle closure glaucoma is a well-known complication of scleral buckling and it is of particular interest when it occurs in eyes with previously normal angles.
(6) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
(7) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
(8) The superior mesenteric artery and the abdominal aorta made the mean angle of 35.5 degree in patients with normal left renal vein, the mean angle of 45.4 degrees in those with left renal vein compression without nutcracker phenomenon, and the mean angle of 11.9 degrees in those with nutcracker phenomenon.
(9) A neodymium YAG (Nd:YAG) laser was evaluated in a dog ulcer model used in the same manner as is recommended for bleeding patients (power 55 W, divergence angle 4 degrees, with CO2 gas-jet assistance).
(10) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
(11) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(12) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(13) Bohler's angle may be reconstituted with apparent reduction of the posterior facet when projected laterally; however, Broden's and axial views show persistent widening and split of the posterior facet.
(14) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(15) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
(16) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(17) In this paper, we develop functions suggested by and regression fit to crystallographic data which allow three of these torsion angles, alpha (O3'-P-O5'-C5'), delta (C5'-C4'-C3'-O3') and epsilon (C4'-C3'-O3'-P), to be calculated as dependent variables of those remaining.
(18) An angle of 40 degrees or more was supposed to be a pathological kyphosis.
(19) The lower neck flexion is 35 degrees and extension of the plane of the face 15 degrees, each angle measured relative to horizontal.
(20) Two homosexual men, 35 and 42 years old, had bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma in association with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
Subtense
Definition:
(a.) A line subtending, or stretching across; a chord; as, the subtense of an arc.
Example Sentences:
(1) For patients sensitive at normal viewing distances, where 50 Hz diffuse flicker appeared to be responsible for the induction of paroxysmal activity, the probability with which paroxysmal activity was induced was closely related to the subtense of the screen.
(2) Pairs of test colors of equal hues and apparent lightnesses and 2 degrees subtense were positioned successively within the pair of complex targets and were judged for relative color saturation.
(3) There is considerable variation between patients in the subtense of a centrally-fixated circular pattern necessary to induce paroxysmal activity with a given probability.
(4) The angular subtense of the TV screen was 15.3 degrees X 11.31 degrees.
(5) For patients sensitive only at closer viewing distances the probability was influenced not by the subtense of the screen but by the subtense of its lines, suggesting that the paroxysmal activity was induced by the 25 Hz pattern alternation produced by the scan.
(6) Stimulus field subtense was 3.5 degrees, and mean luminance was 10 cd.m-2.
(7) A circular, spatially uniform stimulus of 1 degree angular subtense was presented with sinusoidal modulation at 5, 8, 14 and 23 Hz.
(8) For each subject, and group-averaged data, accommodative responses were independent of letter limb subtense.
(9) The visual evoked potentials (VEPs) to pattern reversal stimulation (26' individual check subtense, 11 degrees total field) have been examined in 10 patients with proven chiasmal compression.
(10) Increases in the near addition that may be required by patients after their early fifties are probably associated with an age-dependent decrease in acuity, which necessitates a closer working distance to increase angular subtense, rather than with any continuing decline in accommodation.
(11) The visibility of a uniformly luminous object depends on the apparent contrast between the object and its background, the angular subtense of the object, the contrast threshold of the observer at the level of luminance to which the eyes are adapted, the conditions and technique of observing, and the shape of the object.
(12) First, Reed assumes that the moon's failure to increase in visual subtense while elevating is accounted for strictly by perceptual distancing.
(13) Monochromatic stimuli were presented foveally in a circular, horizontally oriented, bipartite field of 100 Td and angular subtense 2 degrees.
(14) Two observers performed simple reaction-time responses to peripheral stimuli of varying intensity (-2.5 to +1.0 log td) and angular subtense (10 to 210 min).
(15) In the second study, where the angular subtense of the television screen and the subtense of its lines were manipulated independently, the convulsive response was found to be a function of both factors, the relative contribution of each depending on the viewing distance at which the patient was sensitive.
(16) However, for every patient an increase in the probability of paroxysmal activity from near zero to near unity is effected by an increase in the angular subtense of the pattern by a factor of two.
(17) Experiments are described that establish the general relation between extent of saltatory leaping and degree of retinal eccentricity and between leaping and retinal subtense of stimulus patches.
(18) These same two subjects also learned to judge "objective size" when angular subtense systematically increased with increasing depth in an exact inversion of the natural relationship.
(19) A significant decrease in performance was found when the bars were positioned at 0.71 to 1.42 times the angular subtense of the gap for both the preschool children and the adults.
(20) Each is asked to choose a comparison circle, which appears to be the same size, out of a series of eleven filled circles of various angular subtenses larger and smaller than the standard filled circle in the tachistoscope.