Oblique fracture: a fracture in which the break has a curved or sloped pattern.

Oblique fracture: A fracture that is diagonal to a bone's long axis.

Rather than referring to a particular mineral with a specific chemical composition, plagioclase is a solid solution series, more properly known as the plagioclase feldspar series (from the Greek "oblique fracture", in reference to its two cleavage angles).

The cave entrances are aligned along the anticlinal crest (Figure 2) but the caves are controlled by longitudinal, transverse, and oblique fractures and faults and comprise complex winding patterns in the plan view, remaining largely within and near the anticlinal crest zone.

Jordan had served as head coach of the Sacramento Kings for slightly more than a season. . . . ALLEN IVERSON had a cast placed on his left hand on Tuesday to stabilize the short oblique fracture of the second metacarpal.