| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
Castor
genus Castor | type genus of the Castoridae: beavers |
Old World beaver
Castor fiber | a European variety of beaver |
New World beaver
Castor canadensis | a variety of beaver found in almost all areas of North America except Florida |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
beaver
castor | a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) |
caster
castor | a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable |
| caster castor | a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar |
| castor oil | a purgative extracted from the seed of the castor-oil plant, used in paint and varnish as well as medically |
| high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
wide-angle lens
fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
| camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
slant
angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
| bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
castor sugar
caster sugar | very finely granulated sugar that was formerly sprinkled from a castor |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
Castor
Alpha Geminorum | a multiple star with components, second brightest in Gemini, close to Pollux |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
| castor bean | the toxic seed of the castor-oil plant, source of castor oil |
castor-oil plant
castor bean plant
palma christi
palma christ
Ricinus communis | large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin, widely naturalized throughout the tropics |
| straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
| helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
| angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle
HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
| plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
| spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
| solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
| inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle
reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
| salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle
internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle
external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |
angle of incidence
incidence angle | the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence |
| angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
| critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
| angle of reflection | the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence |
| angle of refraction | the angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction |
angle of extinction
extinction angle | the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized light |
| acute angle | an angle less thandegrees but more than
degrees |
| obtuse angle | an angle betweenanddegrees |
| right angle | thedegree angle between two perpendicular lines |
| oblique angle | an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle |
| reflex angle | an angle greater thandegrees (but less than ) |
perigon
round angle | an angle ofdegrees |
| cutting angle | the angle between the face of a cutting tool and the surface of the work |
dip
angle of dip
magnetic dip
magnetic inclination
inclination | (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon |
| polyhedral angle | the space enclosed by three or more planes that intersect in a vertex |
| face angle | the angle formed by two edges of a polyhedral angle |
| tilt angle | the angle a rocket makes with the vertical as it curves along its trajectory |
| vertical angle | either of two equal and opposite angles formed by the intersection of two straight lines |