Lexic.us

Definition of Reentrant angle

1. Noun. An interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180 degrees.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reentrant Angle

Literary usage of Reentrant angle

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

1. Science and Industry (1900)
"Y. In the case of a reentrant angle, the interior angle -V will always exceed 180° by the amount of the angle n and in making the survey it may sometimes be ..."

2. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid: With a Commentary and by Dionysius Lardner (1838)
"The angle which is considered as the reentrant angle, and one of the internal ... (136) A figure which has no reentrant angle is called a convex figure. ..."

3. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by James Morford Taylor (1905)
"Observe that in one of the two reentrant spherical triangles having these sides, A is a reentrant angle, and in the other В and С are reentrant angles. ..."

4. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry by James Morford Taylor (1905)
"Observe that in one of the two reentrant spherical triangles having these sides, A is a reentrant angle, and in the other В and C are reentrant angles. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia of Chemistry, Practical and Theoretical: Embracing Its by James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit (1862)
"... half were turned 180°, there would be. formed a reentrant angle on one end, and a salient angle on the other, as indeed frequently occurs with Gypsum. ..."

6. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid: With Notes by Euclid, Thomas Elrington (1833)
"16, the construction cannot be applied, unless the lines be drawn from the point D. The angle EDC is called a reentrant angle. The number of reentrant ..."

7. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrography from the Laboratories of the by Samuel Lewis Penfield, Louis Valentine Pirsson (1901)
"The faces forming the reentrant angle are the pyramid of the second order ... The surfaces forming the gash or reentrant angle, however, are curved to such ..."

8. The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana, 1837-1868: Descriptive Mineralogy by James Dwight Dana, Edward Salisbury Dana (1920)
"These twins may have the prism formed either by b with its characteristic striations. with or without the reentrant angle; or the external faces may belong ..."

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