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.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

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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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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IR Since Mr Robinson is evidently a geometrically curious fourth line of a triangle, and the hypotenuse at that, please clarify which of the three esteemed ministers he is lying alongside (no innuendo please), and what are the policies or characteristics of the other two that have resulted in them lying at right angles to each other.

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

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