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ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

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• ANGLE OF INCIDENCE (noun)
The noun ANGLE OF INCIDENCE has 1 sense:

1. the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence

Familiarity information: ANGLE OF INCIDENCE used as a noun is very rare.

• ANGLE OF INCIDENCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

angle of incidence; incidence angle

Hypernyms ("angle of incidence" is a kind of...):

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angle of incidence"):

angle of attack (the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil)

critical angle (the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected)

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