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Definition of Angle of incidence
1. Noun. The angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence.
Generic synonyms: Angle
Specialized synonyms: Angle Of Attack, Critical Angle
Definition of Angle of incidence
1. Noun. (optics physics) The angle that a straight line, ray of light, etc., meeting a surface, makes with a normal to the surface at the point of meeting. ¹
2. Noun. (aeronautics) The angle, usually fixed, between the chord line of a wing or horizontal stabilizer and the axis of the fuselage, measured at the root. In UK called the angle of attack. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Angle of incidence
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Angle Of Incidence
Literary usage of Angle of incidence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Now the line A and the dotted line reaching from о to x make the angle of incidence,
and the angle between в and the line from о to X is the angle of ..."
2. Mathematical and Physical Papers by Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Baron John William Strutt Rayleigh (1901)
"As the angle of incidence increases the bands become finer and finer, and after
they have become too fine to be distinguished by the naked eye they may ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1877)
"When the ring» formed between glass and glass are viewed in this way, we know
that as the angle of incidence is increased the rings one by one open out, ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1839)
"The angle of incidence is the complement to a right angle of the angle of inclination.
... The angle of inclination is ABG or HB C. The angle of incidence ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"Had the retarding plate really been "a quarter undulation plate " for light of
any given wave-length, the angle of incidence at which it was reflected as ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"As the angle of incidence passes through the polarizing angle, the reflected
vibration changes sign, and increases in numerical value until it atteins unity ..."
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