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Oblique step
Oblique muscle (Anat.), 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. Oblique narration. See Oblique speech. Oblique planes (Dialing), planes which decline from the zenith, or incline toward the horizon. Oblique sailing (Naut.), the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian. Oblique speech (Rhet.), speech which is quoted indirectly, or in a different person from that employed by the original speaker. Oblique sphere (Astron. & Geog.), 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. Oblique step (Mil.), a step in marching, by which the soldier, while advancing, gradually takes ground to the right or left at an angle of about 25[deg]. It is not now practiced. --Wilhelm. Oblique system of co["o]rdinates (Anal. Geom.), a system in which the co["o]rdinate axes are oblique to each other.

Meaning of Oblique step from wikipedia

- oblique muscle and trochlear nerve (fourth cranial nerve), in acquired vertical double vision. It was originally described by Marshall M. Parks. Step...
- The oblique order (also known as the 'declined flank') is a military tactic whereby an attacking army focuses its forces to attack a single enemy flank...
- po****tions. Stepped clines can be further subdivided into horizontally stepped clines, and obliquely stepped clines. Horizontally stepped clines show...
- given curve. There are three kinds of asymptotes: horizontal, vertical and oblique. For curves given by the graph of a function y = ƒ(x), horizontal asymptotes...
- left foot, and a forward step onto the right foot. The closing step may be done directly beside the other foot, or obliquely beside, or even crossed,...
- a result, the bisacromial diameter is rotated from anteroposterior to oblique lie. The Rubin's II maneuver, usually performed after all other exterior...
- extraocular muscles, the four recti muscles, and the superior and inferior oblique muscles, control movement of the eye and the other muscle, the levator...
- is predominantly vertical and/or perpendicular to the fault trace; or oblique-slip, combining strike-slip and dip-slip. In a strike-slip fault (also...
- Ring gap shapes include square cut, angle cut, tite joint, step cut, hook step and mitre step. Early steam engines used a hemp ****ng to seal the combustion...
- environments, including oceanic and continental transform faults, zones of oblique collision and the deforming foreland of zones of continental collision...