oblique pedal
Mathematics
noun
The locus of the feet of lines drawn from a fixed point to the tangents to a given curve or surface which are at a constant angle with them which is not a right angle.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Century Dictionary.
- on the prod
- on the prowl
- on the quiet
- on the rack
- on the rails
- on the rebound
- on the right (or wrong) track
- on the right side of
- on the rise
- on the road
- on the rocks
- on the rope
- on the ropes
- on the run
- on the same page
- on the scent
- on the score of
- on the scrounge
- on the sea
- on the shelf
- on the sick
- on the side
- on the side of the angels
- on the skew
- on the skids