sideways-on

English

Adjective

sideways-on (comparative more sideways-on, superlative most sideways-on)

1. Of a stance in which something is positioned at right angles to its expected orientation.
   • 1985, SC Nyburg, CH Faerman, “A revision of van der Waals atomic radii for molecular crystals: N, O, F, S, Cl, Se, Br and I bonded to carbon”, in Acta Crystallographica Section B STRUCTURAL SCIENCE, CRYSTAL ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS:

     In this paper we show that these shapes are often not spherical, being shorter in their 'head-on' contacts than in their 'sideways-on' contacts.

   • 2006, James W. Lennox, Janet Rayfield, Bill Steffen, Soccer Skills and Drills‎^[1], page 28:

     The attacking player should also be in a sideways-on stance to receive the ball. This stance refers to the position of the attacker's body—one foot is toward the defender and the other foot toward the oncoming ball.

   • 2010, Donald Kagan, Gregory F. Viggiano, Problems in the History of Ancient Greece: Sources and Interpretation‎^[2]:

     What archaic art thus portrays with varying degrees of stylization would seem to be a sideways-on stance, with the upper body at almost right angles to the shield and to the enemy.