Oblique

Tamil Meaning

சாய்ந்த

சாய்வான

English Meaning

  1. Having a slanting or sloping direction, course, or position; inclined.
  2. Mathematics Designating geometric lines or planes that are neither parallel nor perpendicular.
  3. Botany Having sides of unequal length or form: an oblique leaf.
  4. Anatomy Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal: oblique muscles or ligaments.
  5. Indirect or evasive: oblique political maneuvers.
  6. Devious, misleading, or dishonest: gave oblique answers to the questions.
  7. Not direct in descent; collateral.
  8. Grammar Designating any noun case except the nominative or the vocative.
  9. An oblique thing, such as a line, direction, or muscle.
  10. Nautical The act of changing course by less than 90°.
  11. At an angle of 45°.