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biangular en · ADJ

Etymology

From bi- + angular.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having two angles or corners.
    • X-ray tubes with biangular anode discs are used for dual focus tubes, where there is a need of very small effective focal spot. 2020, Slavik Tabakov, Franco Milano, Perry Sprawls, Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics, page 87:
    • 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. 1965, Willard Rouse Jillson, Biangular Faulting in the Outer Bluegrass Region of Northern Kentucky, page 5:
  2. (not-comparable) Having exactly two angular structures, operations, coordinates, or relative positions.
    • 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). 2022, Paola Flocchini, Giuseppe Prencipe, Nicola Santoro, Distributed Computing by Oblivious Mobile Robots, page 87:
    • a biangular circle