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Definition: Obliquity |
ObliquityNoun1. The presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle. 2. The quality of being deceptive. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "obliquity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Etymology: Obliquity \Ob*liq"ui*ty\, noun; plural Obliquities. [Latin obliquitas: compare to French obliquit['e].]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Physics | The angle between a body's equatorial plane and orbital plane. (references) |
Science | The angle between the plane of the Earth's orbit and the plane of the Earth's equator; the "tilt" of the Earth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ObliquitySynonyms: asynclitism (n), deceptiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Right angle; (perpendicular) a; obliquity; angle of x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle. |
Curvature | Sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity. |
Misjudgment | Noun: misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception; (error); hasty conclusion. |
Obliquity | Noun: obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness; Adjective: slopeness; leaning; Verb: bevel, tilt; bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion; bend; (curve); tower of Pisa. |
Vice | Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Obliquity |
| English words defined with "obliquity": Obliquation, Obliquities ♦ Polar circles ♦ Thwartness ♦ Weather of a windmill sail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "obliquity": Doctor Squintum ♦ Milankovitch theory ♦ obliquity of the ecliptic. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "obliquity": straight-out. (references) |
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| "Obliquity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Obliquity" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "obliquity": angle of obliquity. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
obliquity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "obliquity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pjerrje (bevel, bias, careen, inclination, list, tilt), pjerrësim, dredhim (Parry, prevarication). (various references) | |
Arabic | ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), مزاج منحرف, طريقة ملتوية, إنحراف (aberration, cant, declination, deflection, deflexion, deformity, departure, depravity, deviation, deviousness, divergence, diversion, drift, excursion, immorality, inclination, list, obliqueness, perversion, perversity, sheer, sidetrack, swerve, tangency, twist). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | отклонение от правия път, непочтеност (deviousness, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, improbity), неискреност (humbug, insincerity, pretence, tortuousity, unction), наклоненост (inclination, incline, slope), поквара (corruption, debauchery, depravity, gangrene, infamy, rot, ruin, taint, ulcer), полегатост (cant, incline, pitch, slant, slope, versant). (various references) | |
Czech | zvrácenost (perverseness, perversity), kosost, křivolakost. (various references) | |
Danish | oblikvitet. (various references) | |
Dutch | obliquiteit. (various references) | |
Farsi | کجی (Clubfoot, Crook, Curvature, Hade, List, Skew, Slant, Slope, Tilt), گمراهی (Loss, Slip), انحراف اخلاقی . (various references) | |
Finnish | vinous (bias, distortion, obliqueness). (various references) | |
French | obliquité (obliqueness). (various references) | |
German | Schiefheit (crookedness, distortion, inappropriateness, lopsidedness, obliqueness, tilt, wryness), Schiefe (asymmetry, crookedness, inclination, lopsidedly, lopsidedness, obliqueness, skew, tilt). (various references) | |
Greek | λοξότητα (skew, slant). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אלכסו יות (diagonality, obliqueness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ferdeség (cant, leaning, skew, skewness, slant, twist, wryness). (various references) | |
Italian | obliquit (obliqueness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obliquityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | obliquidade (incline, lay, slant). (various references) | |
Romanian | oblicitate (obliqueness), poziţie oblicã, deviere (aberration, abnormality, deflection, deflexion, departure from, diversion, swerve, warp), caracter pieziş, caracter oblic, abatere (anomaly, deflection, departure, deviation, digression, error, exception, excursion, kick, licence, license, swerve, transgression), înclinare (batter, bent, bias, cant, cast, declension, dip, fancy, hang, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, lurch, pitching, slope, tilt). (various references) | |
Russian | косое направление, наклонение (inclination, mood). (various references) | |
Scottish | fiaradh (inclination, slanting : car am). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | okolišanje (circumlocution, equivocation, pussyfoot, runabout), ukošenost, kosost. (various references) | |
Spanish | oblicuidad (obliqueness, skew, skewness). (various references) | |
Thai | การเอียง. (various references) | |
Turkish | yoldan çıkma (obliqueness, perversity), sapma (bias, declension, declination, deflection, deflexion, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, drift, excursion, inequality, lapse, obliqueness, perversion, refracting, refractive, spread, swing, turn, warp), meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, liking, penchant, proclivity, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), eğim (bevel, cant, declination, dip, elevation, fall, grade, gradient, inclination, incline, my better half, pitch, slant, slope, tilt, tip), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, penchant, ply, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скіс (batter, bevel, obliqueness, splay), косий напрям (obliqueness), конусність (obliqueness), відхилення від норми (obliqueness, perversion), відхилення від прямої лінії (obliqueness, skew), відхилення від прямого шляху (obliqueness), нахилення орбіти (obliqueness), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, palate, ply, proclivity, propensity, slope, tilt, tip), похиле положення (obliqueness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính quanh co (crookedness), tính không thẳng thắn, sự xiên, sự chếch độ xiên tính cạnh khoé, sự chéo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Obliquity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: obiqiuty, obiquity, obliqiuty, obliquay, obliqueity, obliquety, obliquey, obuiquity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "obliquity" (pronounced 'Ob*liq"ui*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-i-l-o-q-t-u-y" | |
-4 letters: built, butyl, outby, quilt, quoit. | |
-5 letters: blot, boil, bolt, bout, buoy, litu, loti, lout, obit, oily, quit, toby, toil, tolu. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-i-l-o-q-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: quotability. | |
+3 letters: ubiquitously. | |
+4 letters: equilibratory. | |
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