Obliquity

1. (n.) The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

2. (n.) Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.

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