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angle of incidence

NOUN
  1. the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence

How To Use angle of incidence In A Sentence

  • It maintains the "stagger" and assists in maintaining the angle of incidence. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
  • -- Since such an aeroplane would be of low velocity, and therefore possess a large angle of incidence, a _large camber_ would be necessary. The Aeroplane Speaks Fifth Edition
  • [Shown.] (2) As the angle of incidence is increased, the reflected light becomes brighter and rises in refrangibility. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
  • Upon measuring the absorbance of a labeled peptide at a given angle of incidence, two different dichroic ratios were obtained.
  • Anisotropic film properties can arise when the ion - beam angle of incidence is not normal the substrate.
  • When the angle of incidence is increased, the band moves in the direction of increasing refrangibility, and at the same time increases rapidly in width. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
  • Especially because the angle of incidence of sunlight in the winter at our latitude is greater, and thus we get less of the suns direct rays. Sound Politics: Please, no jokes about "global cooling"
  • Alphonse Penaud established the practice of setting the horizontal stabiliser at a negative angle of incidence relative to the wing chord, which provides longitudinal balance to an aircraft.
  • Computer-driven stepper motors rotate the mirrors to obtain the desired angle of incidence.
  • For _distant_ views there is in nature scarcely any stereoscopic effect; and in a photographic stereoscopic view the effect produced is not really a representation to the eye of the _view itself_, but of _a model of such view_; and the apparent size of the model will vary with the angle of incidence of the two pictures, being _smaller_ and _nearer_ as the angle increases. Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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