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double-oblique en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Combining or including two oblique angles.
   • In certain other molluscan muscles, however, Marceau (1908) observed double-oblique striations which could not be ascribed to the presence of spirally wound, homogeneous fibrils. 1958, J Bowden, “The Structure and Innervation of Lamellibranch Muscle”, in International Review of Cytology, volume 7, page 319:
   • These applications include the startup of a supersonic test section, single and double oblique shock diffusers, supersonic airfoils, and supersonic nozzles. 2021, Forrest E. Ames, Clement C. Tang, An Introduction to Compressible Flow, page 139:
   • Figure 1(a) shows a novel translating follower having double oblique flat-faced configuration. 2019, Chin-Hsing Kuo, Pei-Chun Lin, Terence Essomba, Robotics and Mechatronics, page 165:
   • In double oblique angulations, the first rotation is chosen about the vertical image axis and the second about the (new) horizontal axis. 2007, Maximilian F Reiser, Wolfhard Semmler, Hedvig Hricak, Magnetic Resonance Tomography, page 1451:
2. (not-comparable, rare) Aligning the agent and object in nonergative tenses but aligning the subject and object in ergative tenses.
   • The historical origin of the double-oblique system can be easily reconstructed: the transitive past with its characteristic double-oblique form as shown in (53) was originally ergative, with an oblique A and an absolutive O. 2002, N.E. Collinge, An Encyclopedia of Language:
   • Even less common is the double-oblique type, found in certain Pamir languages (Payne 1980), Kashmiri and Pashto (Bubenik 1989b). 1998, Vit Bubenik, A Historical Syntax of Late Middle Indo-Aryan, page 224: