(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.

(analytic geometry) A system in which the coordinate axes are oblique to each other.

(anatomy) A muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles, applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.

(astronomy, geography) The celestial or terrestrial sphere when its axis is oblique to the horizon of the place; or as it appears to an observer at any point on the earth except the poles and the equator.

(grammar) Any noun case except the nominative case (and sometimes the vocative case), where the noun is the object of a verb or the object of a preposition.

Synonym of oblique speech