ANGULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angulate mean? 

• ANGULATE (adjective)
  The adjective ANGULATE has 1 sense:

1. having angles or an angular shape

  Familiarity information: ANGULATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• ANGULATE (verb)
  The verb ANGULATE has 1 sense:

1. make or become angular

  Familiarity information: ANGULATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGULATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having angles or an angular shape

Synonyms:

angular; angulate

Similar:

angled (forming or set at an angle)

asteroid; star-shaped (shaped like a star)

bicuspid; bicuspidate (having two cusps or points (especially a molar tooth))

cuspate; cuspated; cusped; cuspidal; cuspidate; cuspidated (having cusps or points)

equiangular (having all angles equal)

isogonic (having or making equal angles)

rectangular (having four right angles)

sharp-angled; sharp-cornered (having sharp corners)

square-shaped (shaped like a square)

three-cornered (having three corners)

triangular (having three angles; forming or shaped like a triangle)

tricuspid; tricuspidate (having three cusps or points (especially a molar tooth))

unicuspid (having a single cusp or point)

Also:

pointed (having a point)

square (having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle)

Derivation:

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

• ANGULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they angulate    ... he / she / it angulates   
Past simple: angulated   
Past participle: angulated   
-ing form: angulating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make or become angular

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "angulate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

 Context examples 

Gemistocytes are round to oval astrocytes with abundant, glassy, non-fibrillary cytoplasm which appears to displace the dark, angulated nucleus to the periphery of the cell.

(Gemistocytic Astrocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

Diffuse (length greater than 2cm) or excessive tortuosity of proximal segment or extremely angulated segments greater than 90 degrees or total occlusions greater than 3 months old and/or bridging collaterals or inability to protect major side branches or degenerated vein grafts with friable lesions.

(American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Lesion Complexity Score C, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Tubular (10-20 mm length) or eccentric or moderate tortuosity of proximal segment or moderately angulated segment, 45-90 degrees or irregular contour or moderate to heavy calcification or ostial in location or bifurcation lesions requiring double guidewires or some thrombus present or total occlusion less than 3 months old.

(American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Lesion Complexity Score B, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Discrete (less than 10 mm length) and concentric and readily accessible and non-angulated segment less than 45 degrees and smooth contour and little or no calcification and less than totally occlusive and not ostial in location and no major branch involvement and absence of thrombus.

(American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Lesion Complexity Score A, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)