Definition of Face angle

1. Noun. The angle formed by two edges of a polyhedral angle.

Generic synonyms: Angle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Face Angle

face-bow fork
face-bow record
face-down
face-harden
face-lift
face-off
face-offs
face-plant
face-planted
face-planting
face-plants
face-saving
face-to-face
face-up
face-value
face angle (current term)
face blindness
face card
face cards
face cloth
face cream
face down
face for radio
face form
face fungus
face guard
face lift
face lifting
face like a bag of spanners

Literary usage of Face angle

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

1. The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements by Euclid, Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1908)
"Two trihedral angles are equal if two dihedral angles and the included face angle of the one are respectively equal to two dihedral angles and the included ..."

2. Plane and Solid Geometry by George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith (1913)
"Two trihedral angles are equal when two dihedral angles and the included face angle of the one are equal respectively to two dihedral angles and the ..."

3. Solid Geometry by Clara Avis Hart, Daniel D. Feldman, John Henry Tanner, Virgil Snyder (1912)
"Two trihedral angles are equal : I. If a face angle and the two adjacent dihedral angles of one are equal respectively to a face angle and the two adjacent ..."

4. Plane and Solid Geometry by George Albert Wentworth (1904)
"Two trihedral angles are equal when two dihedral angles and the included face angle of the one are equal, respectively, to two dihedral angles and the ..."

5. American Machinists' Handbook and Dictionary of Shop Terms: A Reference Book by Fred Herbert Colvin, Frank Arthur Stanley (1914)
"Subtract the same addendum angle from the center angle of the gear to obtain the cutting angle of the gear and the face angle of the pinion. ..."

6. Practical Shipbuilding: A Treatise on the Structural Design and Building of by A. Campbell Holms (1918)
"In small vessels •which carry coal, ore, etc., a face angle bar of ordinary light scantlings has little endurance ; being exposed to bumps and blows, ..."

7. Elements of Geometry by Simon Newcomb (1881)
"Because A OA' and BOB' are in the same straight line, face angle A' OB' — opp. ... In the same way it may be shown that every other face angle of the one is ..."

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