(typography) A form of type that slants slightly to the right.

plural of oblique shock

(medicine, pathology) A common baseball injury, affecting the contralateral side external oblique, or the trailing internal oblique.

(military) A military tactic whereby an attacking army focuses its forces to attack a single enemy flank.

plural of oblique strain

(aviation) A variable geometry wing concept, where the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot, so that one tip is swept forward while the opposite tip is swept aft.

plural of oblique stem

(grammar, linguistics) A third declension found in the grammars of Latin and Ancient Greek.

(aerodynamics) A shock wave that, unlike a normal shock, is inclined with respect to the incident upstream flow direction.

Synonym of oblique foliation