Definition of Angle of attack

1. Noun. The acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil.


Definition of Angle of attack

1. Noun. (&lit angle attack) ¹

2. Noun. (context: aeronautics) The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil. ¹

3. Noun. (context: nautical) The angle between a mid-sail and the direction of the wind. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Angle Of Attack

angle bisector
angle bisectors
angle bracket
angle brackets
angle closure glaucoma
angle for
angle grinder
angle grinders
angle iron
angle of Fuchs
angle of anomaly
angle of antetorsion
angle of anteversion
angle of aperture
angle of attack
angle of convergence
angle of declination
angle of depression
angle of deviation
angle of dip
angle of eccentricity
angle of emergence
angle of extinction
angle of femoral torsion
angle of incidence
angle of inclination
angle of iris
angle of jaw
angle of mandible

Literary usage of Angle of attack

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"On plunging squarely into the column; thus suddenly increasing the angle of attack, the pressure on the wings, and the angle of ascent. 3. ..."

2. The Dynamics of the Airplane by Kenneth Powers Williams (1921)
"For a given angle of attack the machine therefore flies faster as the altitude ... Let P be a point on the curve corresponding to an angle of attack a. ..."

3. Textbook of Naval Aeronautics by Henry Woodhouse (1917)
"angle of attack indicator. Radiator temperature indicator. Gasoline feed system pressure indicator. Sextant. Aeroplane director. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1917)
"The difference is made apparent in Fig. i, in which the vertical height of a point denotes the force, the horizontal distance the angle of attack of the ..."

5. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by Louis R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"The variation with angle of attack of the normal-force coefficient (directed normal to the body axis and In the plane of the angle of attack) that occurs on ..."

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