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Oblique sailing

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {Oblique muscle} (Anat.), a muscle acting in a direction
      oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the
      associated muscles; -- applied especially to two muscles
      of the eyeball.

   {Oblique narration}. See {Oblique speech}.

   {Oblique planes} (Dialing), planes which decline from the
      zenith, or incline toward the horizon.

   {Oblique sailing} (Naut.), the movement of a ship when she
      sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points,
      making an oblique angle with the meridian.

   {Oblique speech} (Rhet.), speech which is quoted indirectly,
      or in a different person from that employed by the
      original speaker.

   {Oblique sphere} (Astron. & Geog.), the celestial or
      terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon
      of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point
      on the earth except the poles and the equator.

   {Oblique step} (Mil.), a step in marching, by which the
      soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the
      right or left at an angle of about 25[deg]. It is not now
      practiced. --Wilhelm.

   {Oblique system of co["o]rdinates} (Anal. Geom.), a system in
      which the co["o]rdinate axes are oblique to each other.
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