Below, rice terraces run down the hillsides at right angles, as neatly as the folds in origami paper.

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Sitting at right angles is the arrangement most conducive to informal conversation.

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But rather than being just purely left-and-right, the split is dynamic, diagonally crossing the screen at right angles to the positioning of the two characters.

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These exploit the fact that gravitational waves should cause space to stretch in one direction and shrink in the dimension at right angles to it.

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The B-1B has a "variable-geometry" or swing-wing design: The wings are swept forwards, almost at right angles to the body, for take-off and landing and cruising.

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With their gray glass bushings sticking out at right angles, they look strangely out of sync with the evolving calls for a "smart grid, " but engineers say they still work just fine.

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Each glass sheet has rows of conducting wires running across it, and the two sets of wires are at right angles, so that a voltage can be applied across the liquid crystal at any chosen intersection.

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There seems to be no way that particles streaming past the earth along magnetic field lines can make a turn, move at right angles to those lines for a bit and end up inside the magnetosphere.

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Pasted on the outside of nine tall white panels, some walled at right angles to form squares, are large black-and-white images of incongruous and somewhat inscrutable things, including the front of a camera and two men conversing.

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With just this one camera, users can enjoy shooting various scenes at just the right angles.

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