Diagonal [adjective]

Pro skier Drew Petersen teamed up with Salomon TV and Switchback Entertainment to demonstrate the diagonal and A-frame ski-carry techniques.

In further simulations, they varied the number of diagonals as well as their spacing and thickness to find the lattice that could sustain the most compression.

The pillars are strengthened against lateral yielding by horizontal and diagonal bracing.

It was built at Chatham, from the design of Mr. Oliver Lang, of mahogany and on the diagonal principle.

Construction: diagonal principle, Dantzic oak without, horizontal planking of Italian larch.

At the left of the doorway, a bay window, also heavily curtained, is set into the diagonal wall.

At (a) the diagonal lines are used to distinguish the flat side of the neck from the round part of the bolt above it.

Taking this diagonal line as the length, describe another square.

The blue stick has a diagonal facet at the top to indicate the square topped female mask (paragraph 168).

He did not cross the river in a direct line, but headed so far up stream that his canoe became diagonal.