sesquiquadrate
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prettygoodwordsesquiquadrate (ses-kwee-KWA-drayt) - adj., separated by an angle of 135°.
Or literally (from Latin roots) by a quadrant and a half. This might seem a rather abstruse thing to have a word for it, and indeed its main use is in astrology, where two planets sesquiquadrate (separated by four and a half houses) supposedly indicates weak disharmony in their influences. According to Wikipedia in a section marked needing references, this aspect (and possibly the term?) was introduced by Johannes Kepler along with other minor aspects.
Not as beautiful a two-Q word as quaquaversal, but it's still a two-Q word.
---L.
Or literally (from Latin roots) by a quadrant and a half. This might seem a rather abstruse thing to have a word for it, and indeed its main use is in astrology, where two planets sesquiquadrate (separated by four and a half houses) supposedly indicates weak disharmony in their influences. According to Wikipedia in a section marked needing references, this aspect (and possibly the term?) was introduced by Johannes Kepler along with other minor aspects.
Not as beautiful a two-Q word as quaquaversal, but it's still a two-Q word.
---L.
