glancing

  • 11glancing — adjective /ˈɡlɑːnsɪŋ/ Making a superficial, obtuse contact with something. His fist caught a glancing blow to my jaw …

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  • 12glancing — adj. Glancing is used with these nouns: ↑blow …

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  • 13glancing — adjective a glancing blow a hit that partly misses so that it does not have its full force glancingly adverb …

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  • 14glancing — glance ► VERB 1) take a brief or hurried look. 2) strike at an angle and bounce off obliquely. ► NOUN ▪ a brief or hurried look. DERIVATIVES glancing adjective. ORIGIN Old French glacier to slip , from glace ice …

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  • 15glancing angle — Brego kampas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. Bragg angle; Bragg reflection angle; glancing angle vok. Braggscher Reflexionswinkel, m; Braggscher Winkel, m; Glanzwinkel, m rus. брэгговский угол, m; угол Брэгга Вульфа, m; угол… …

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  • 16glancing angle — spindesio kampas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. glancing angle vok. Glanzwinkel, m rus. угол брэгговского отражения, m; угол скольжения, m pranc. angle de brillance, m …

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  • 17glancing angle — noun Etymology: glancing from gerund of glance (I) : the angle between an incident beam (as of X rays or electrons) and the surface upon which it is incident : the complement of the angle of incidence * * * the angle between a ray incident on a… …

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  • 18glancing — the skimming or bouncing of young (up to four weeks old) Cichlidae such as Etroplus maculatus off the side of the adult fish …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 19glancing — Synonyms and related words: brushing, contacting, contingent, flanking, grazing, impingent, impinging, in contact, lateral, lee, leeward, meeting, next beside, nudging, osculatory, rubbing, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway,… …

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  • 20glancing — glæns /glɑːns n. quick look, brief glance; gleam, flash; deflection, rebound v. look quickly; shine, gleam; bounce off, strike at an angle …

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