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Umbra versa

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umbra rectanounOn a shadow in the shape of a right triangle, the length of the shadow's edge adjacent to a measured angle.
altitudenounThe absolute height of a location, usually measured from sea level.
hypotenusenoun(geometry) The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
alternate anglesnoun(geometry) the internal angles made by two (parallel) lines with a third, on opposite sides of it.
opposite anglenoun(geometry) Either of the angles directly opposite to each other when two lines intersect in a plane.
vertical anglenoun(geometry) Any of the opposite angles formed by intersecting lines.
apothemnoun(geometry) The distance from the center of a regular polygon perpendicular to one of its sides (a special case of the above).
solid anglenoun(geometry) The three-dimensional analog of an angle, equivalent to the area of that portion of the surface of a unit sphere that it subtends.
subtensenoun(geometry) A line which subtends, especially the chord of an arc.
right anglenoun(geometry) Half of the angle formed by a single straight line, equivalent to 90 degrees.
quadraturenoun(mathematics) The act or process of constructing a square that has the same area as a given plane figure, or of computing that area.
hillshadenoun(computer graphics) A graphical representation of a surface as if illuminated from one side
acute-angled trianglenoun(geometry) An acute triangle.
offsetverb(transitive) To counteract or compensate for, by applying a change in the opposite direction.
right-angled trianglenoun(geometry) A right triangle.
right trianglenoun(geometry) A triangle having a right angle as one of its interior angles.
oppositionnounThe action of opposing or of being in conflict.
base anglenoun(trigonometry) Either of the two angles that intersect with the base of a triangle.
path of totalitynoun(astronomy) The path traced on the Earth's surface by the moon's shadow (more precisely, the umbra) during a total eclipse of the sun.
antiparallel(biochemistry) Describing the orientations of the two strands of DNA.

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