OBLIQUITY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary the angle between the planes of a planet's equator and its orbit about the sun: for the earth (obliquity of the ecliptic) it is currently c 23° 26 5′ and will decrease at the rate of 0 47″ a year for c 1,500 years, at which time it will begin to increase again
Obliquity - definition of obliquity by The Free Dictionary Indirection in conduct or verbal expression; lack of straightforwardness: "It may be that the candor of contemporary literature creates a nostalgia for indirection, obliquity and deferral" (Anatole Broyard)
obliquity - Wiktionary, the free dictionary obliquity (countable and uncountable, plural obliquities) The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation [from 15th c ] quotations
Definition of obliquity - Words Defined In geometry, obliquity refers to the quality of being oblique, relating to angles or lines that are not perpendicular or parallel to a given reference line In astronomy, obliquity specifically refers to the angle of tilt of a planetary body’s rotational axis in relation to its orbital plane