(geometry) A line that, meeting or tending to meet another, makes oblique angles with it.

(architecture) An arch whose span is not at right angles to the face.

(military) Fire whose direction is not perpendicular to the line fired at.

a skew bridge

(projection) a circle whose plane is oblique to the axis of the primitive plane

(military) A step in marching, by which a soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25 degrees.

(music) A kind of motion or progression in which one part ascends or descends, while the other prolongs or repeats the same tone.

A plane which declines from the zenith, or inclines toward the horizon.

(nautical) The movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.

(fortifications) that part of the curtain whence the fire of the opposite bastion may be discovered.