1 Oblique remarks are not direct, so that the real meaning is not immediately clear: --
She made several oblique references to the current financial situation.
2 a slash : --
Fractions can be written with an oblique, for example 2/3.
3 one of the muscles that lies in a sloping direction from the middle of the body : --
He made an oblique reference to their relationship.
To understand oblique penetration, in this paper we investigate the dynamics of the filament and the magnetic field after a filament penetrates into the magnetosphere.
The comment is usually oblique, absorbed below normal levels of ratiocination.
The acceleration at cone wing depends on laser intensity and more importantly, cone angle, since the interaction strongly depends on incident angle for oblique irradiation.
Trapped-particle effects become more important for oblique injection being typical for outer radii.
The structure matrix, after an oblique rotation, shows that two factors have only one category of constraint with a unique and salient loading.
Ventral surface of posterior end ornamented with longitudinal and oblique cuticular ridges.
The dependent variable does address itself to the principles and values of democracy, but only indirectly and in an oblique sort of way.
The font family consists of 5 weights (4 for condensed), with complementary obliques for widest width fonts.