📐 To make angled 📐 Having angles

to angulate

1 9.1

To make something have sharp angles

verb
/ˈæŋɡjʊˌleɪt/

: angular

He learned to angulate the kayak effectively to navigate through the twisty river.

I can get alignment and then I can take that view that I have and then try, I angulate it with others.

Examples

Three months into the treatment period, a routine follow-up X-ray showed a fracture of the lower femur, which was angulated anteriorly.

Academic text (2007)
To improve its design, the engineer decided to angulate the corners of the new building.
I can get alignment and then I can take that view that I have and then try, I angulate it with others.

Jay Shetty Podcast
External binding could also be reduced by slightly angulating the instrument arms (Figure 3).

Academic text (2005)
Figure 3. External binding and interference of the robotic arms could be reduced if the instrument arms were slightly angulated.

Academic text (2005)
A fragment may shift laterally, may angulate, may rotate, may be distracted, may override, or may be impacted.

Academic text (2002)
The artist used sharp lines to angulate the figures in her painting.

How Angular

to sharpen

35 2.1

to angulate

1 9.1

to bend

268 1.0

to round

76 2.1

Surface Forms

angulate infinitive

angulated past

angulated past participle

angulating present participle

angulates third person singular

Morphology

angulate = angle (transparent) = angul + ate

Formed from the familiar word 'angle' with the productive suffix '-ate' meaning 'to make or become', so the meaning is directly derivable.

Etymology

Angulate comes from a root that means 'angle' or 'corner', the same idea you find in angle and triangle. So to angulate something is to bend or shape it into clear corners or sharp angles.