English > inclined: 3 senses > adjective 2| Meaning | At an angle to the horizontal or vertical position. |
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| Example | "an inclined plane" |
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| Attribute of | orientation | Position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions |
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| Narrower | aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping | Having an oblique or slanted direction |
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| atilt, canted, leaning, tilted, tipped | departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal |
| high-pitched | Set at a sharp or high angle or slant |
| low-pitched | Set at a low angle or slant |
| monoclinal | Of a geological structure in which all strata are inclined in the same direction |
| pitched | Set at a slant |
| salient | represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) |
| sidelong | Inclining or directed to one side |
| skew, skewed | Having an oblique or slanting direction or position |
| See also | gradual | (of a topographical gradient) not steep or abrupt |
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| oblique | slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled |
| Opposite | horizontal | parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line |
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| vertical, perpendicular | At right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line |
| Spanish | inclinado |
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