angle closer

[′aŋ·gəl ‚klōz·ər]

(engineering)

A specially shaped brick used to close the bond at the corner of a wall.

angle closer

A special-shaped brick used to close the bond at the corner of a wall.

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While most .22 pistols feature the raked-back angle better suited to feeding the rimmed .22 LR cartridges, shooters required to shoot an M1911 in competition preferred a rimfire with a grip angle closer to that of the .45.

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Instead, the team found that the fastest debris, ejected at the initial stages of crater formation, tended to depart at an angle closer to 30 degrees more of a sideways spray than an upward trajectory.

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In theory if a typist were to type on a negatively sloped keyboard with a wrist extension angle closer to a neutral posture than the approximately 200 extension with a conventional keyboard, then the typist would be less susceptible to WMSDs.