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Definition of Reentering angle
1. Noun. An interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180 degrees.
Generic synonyms: Interior Angle, Internal Angle
Antonyms: Salient Angle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reentering Angle
Literary usage of Reentering angle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1889)
"131 ; no reentering angle or apparent suture on plane 0. ... Tho twin, by the
absence of a reentering angle on plane 0, appears to prove that the form is ..."
2. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1868)
"Composition-face 14, or edge 1/1 (=Z/4 reentering angle made between edge
7/7 (=n/ft} of each part ... 535, having then the reentering angle 104° Var.—1. ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1895)
"Next we may observe that, the more acute the salient angle is the more acute the
reentering angle will be : and thus the advantage of defence over attack is ..."
4. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1901)
"... and when closed together or to plates or bars in the many types of bridge
construction, form at their intersection a reentering angle or groove, ..."
5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"Most important is a mass of muscular fibres, which starting from the lower part
of the reentering angle of the thyroid pass horizontally but inclined ..."
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