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Definition of Polyhedral angle
1. Noun. The space enclosed by three or more planes that intersect in a vertex.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyhedral Angle
Literary usage of Polyhedral angle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plane and Solid Geometry by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith (1913)
"polyhedral angle. The opening of three or more planes which meet at a common ...
The face angles and dihedral angles are the parts of the polyhedral angle ..."
2. Plane and Solid Geometry by George Albert Wentworth (1904)
"The magnitude of a polyhedral angle depends upon the relative position of its faces,
... In a polyhedral angle, every two adjacent edges form a face angle, ..."
3. Plane and Solid Geometry by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1895)
"A polyhedral angle is also called a solid angle. As two intersecting lines form
an infinite number of plane angles, but the smallest is considered unless ..."
4. Solid Geometry by William Betz, Harrison Emmett Webb (1916)
"A polyhedral angle is the figure formed by three or more rays having a common
origin, no three of the rays lying in one plane. The rays are called the edges ..."
5. Solid Geometry by George Albert Wentworth (1902)
"The magnitude of a polyhedral angle depends upon the relative position of its faces,
... In a polyhedral angle, every two adjacent edges form a face angle, ..."
6. Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Mathematical Science: Comprising by Charles Davies, William Guy Peck (1855)
"When the plane angles which bound a polyhedral angle are equal, and equally
inclined to each other, the polyhedral angle is said to be regular. ..."
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