a. Geom. [f. EQUI- + ANGULAR.] Having equal angles.
a. Having all its angles equal. b. Having angles respectively equal with those of another figure, or making equal angles with a line. Equiangular spiral (see quot. 1884).
1660. Barrow, Euclid, I. def. 28 b. An Equiangular or equal-angled figure is that whereof all the angles are equal.
17211800. in Bailey.
1756. Simpson, Euclid, 134 (Jod.). A circle may be inscribed in a given equilateral and equiangular quindecagon.
1786. Phil. Trans., LXXVI. 21. The method employed to make the threads of the screw equiangular with the axis.
1840. Lardner, Geom., 119. Mutually equiangular, and therefore similar.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca, II. 223. Beak prominent, area equiangular.
1884. B. Williamson, Diff. Calculus, xii. 223. In the logarithmic spiral the angle between the radius vector and the tangent is constant. On account of this property the curve is also called the equiangular spiral.