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Oblique may refer to one of several things:
In
human anatomy,
- abdominal muscles,
- Abdominal external oblique muscle
The external oblique muscle is the largest and the most superficial of the three flat muscles of the lateral anterior abdomen.-Structure:...
- Abdominal internal oblique muscle
The internal oblique muscle is the intermediate muscle of the abdomen, lying just underneath the external oblique and just above the transverse abdominal muscle.-Structure:...
- eye muscles,
- Inferior oblique muscle
The Obliquus oculi inferior is a thin, narrow muscle, placed near the anterior margin of the floor of the orbit.-Action:Its actions are lateral rotation, elevation and abduction of the eye....
- Superior oblique muscle
For the abdominal muscle see: External oblique muscleThe superior oblique muscle, or obliquus oculi superior, is a fusiform muscle in the upper, medial side of the orbit whose primary action is intorsion and whose secondary actions are to abduct and...
- Oblique arytenoid muscle in the neck,
- Oblique cord
The oblique cord is a small, flattened band, extending downward and lateralward, from the lateral side of the ulnar tuberosity at the base of the coronoid process to the radius a little below the radial tuberosity....
near the elbow,
- Oblique fissure
In the lung, the oblique fissure separates the inferior lobe of either lung from the remainder of the lung. The oblique fissure extends from the spinous process of T2 to 6th costal...
separating the lungs
In
other uses,
- Oblique (album)
Oblique is an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. The album was originally recorded in 1967 and issued as catalog number GXF-3061 in Japan in 1980...
, an album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson
- Oblique, a Barcelona
Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...
based electronica-music-styled group.
- Oblique angle
Dutch tilt, Dutch angle, oblique angle, German angle, canted angle or Batman Angle are terms used for a cinematic tactic often used to portray the psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed...
, another word for "Dutch angle" in cinematography
- Oblique angle
In geometry and trigonometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle...
, in geometry, an angle that is not a multiple of 90 degrees
- Oblique banded rattail, a fish also known as a rough-head whiptail
- Oblique case
An oblique case in linguistics is a noun case of synthetic languages that is used generally when a noun is the object of a verb or a preposition...
, in linguistics
- Oblique correction
In particle physics, an oblique correction refers to a particular type of radiative correction to the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. Oblique corrections are defined in four-fermion scattering processes, at the CERN LEP collider...
, in particle physics
- Oblique order
The Oblique Order is a military tactic where an attacking army focuses its forces to attack a single enemy flank. The force commander concentrates the majority of his strength on one flank and uses the remainder to fix the enemy line. This allows a commander with weaker or equal forces to...
, a military formation
- Oblique projection
Oblique projection is a simple type of graphical projection used for producing pictorial, two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects.- Overview :Oblique projection is a type of parallel projection:...
, in geometry and drawing, including cavalier and cabinet projection
- Oblique reflection
In Euclidean geometry, oblique reflections generalize ordinary reflections by not requiring that reflection be done using perpendiculars. If two points are oblique reflections of each other, they will still stay so under affine transformations....
, in Euclidean geometry
- Oblique shock
An oblique shock wave, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the incident upstream flow direction. It will occur when a supersonic flow encounters a corner that effectively turns the flow into itself and compresses. The upstream streamlines are uniformly deflected after the shock wave...
, in gas dynamics
- Oblique type
Oblique type is a form of type that slants slightly to the right, used in the same manner as italic type. Unlike italic type, however, it does not use different glyph shapes; it uses the same glyphs as roman type, except distorted...
, in typography
- Oblique wing
An Oblique wing is a variable geometry wing concept. On an aircraft so equipped, the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot, so that one tip is swept forward while the opposite tip is swept aft. By changing its sweep angle in this way, drag can be reduced at high speed without sacrificing low...
, in aircraft design
- Slash (punctuation)
The American English slash is a punctuation mark. It is variously termed stroke , slash, virgule, diagonal, forward slash, right-leaning stroke, oblique dash, slant, separatrix, scratch comma, slaok, over, slak, or whack...
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