obliquity : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: obliquity	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for obliquity
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
obliquity n the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at an abnormal angle Synonym(s): asynclitism, obliquity the quality of being deceptive Synonym(s): deceptiveness, obliquity
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Obliquity \Obliq"uity\, n.; pl. {Obliquities}. [L. obliquitas: cf. F. obliquit[82].] 1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator. 2. Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude. To disobey [God] . . . imports a moral obliquity. --South.