knee bend
squat squatting | exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent, strengthens the leg muscles |
| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
bend
curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
| bend bend dexter | diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left |
blind curve
blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
| carrick bend | a knot used to connect the ends of two large ropes or hawsers |
| fisherman's bend | a knot for tying a line to a spar or ring |
| hairpin bend | a U-shaped bend in a road |
| hawser bend | a knot uniting the ends of two lines |
| high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
sheet bend
becket bend
weaver's knot
weaver's hitch | a hitch used for temporarily tying a rope to the middle of another rope (or to an eye) |
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 |
bar sinister
bend sinister | a mark of bastardy, lines from top right to bottom left |
| bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
bending
bend | movement that causes the formation of a curve |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
| Big Bend | a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border, formed by a bend in the Rio Grande |
| Big Bend National Park | a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife |
| South Bend | a city in northern Indiana |
| Bend | a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
| straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
bend crook
twist turn | a circular segment of a curve, a bend in the road, a crook in the path |
| 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 |