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PRONUNCIATION OF ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

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Angle of incidence is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ANGLE OF INCIDENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Angle of incidence

Angle of incidence is a measure of deviation of something from "straight on", for example: ▪ in the approach of a ray to a surface, or ▪ the angle at which the wing or horizontal tail of an airplane is installed on the fuselage, measured relative to the axis of the fuselage.

Definition of angle of incidence in the English dictionary

The definition of angle of incidence in the dictionary is the angle that a line or beam of radiation makes with the normal to the surface at the point of incidence. Other definition of angle of incidence is Also called: rigging angle of incidence. the angle between the chord line of an aircraft wing or tailplane and the aircraft's longitudinal axis.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

angle bar
angle bracket
angle grinder
angle iron
angle of advance
angle of attack
angle of bank
angle of deviation
angle of dip
angle of friction
angle of reflection
angle of refraction
angle of repose
angle plate
angleberry
angledozer
angledug
anglepod
Anglepoise
angler

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

at your convenience
cadence
coincidence
confidence
correspondence
crisis of confidence
dependence
documentary evidence
evidence
hall of residence
in residence
incidence
independence
jurisprudence
precedence
providence
prudence
residence
self-confidence
transcendence
vote of no confidence

Synonyms and antonyms of angle of incidence in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «angle of incidence» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANGLE OF INCIDENCE

Find out the translation of angle of incidence to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of angle of incidence from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «angle of incidence» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

入射角
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ángulo de incidencia
570 millions of speakers

English

angle of incidence
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घटना के कोण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زاوية السقوط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Угол падения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ângulo de incidência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘটনা কোণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

angle d´incidence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sudut kejadian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Einfallswinkel
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

入射角
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

입사각
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Amba saka kedadeyan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

góc tới
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நிகழ்வின் கோணம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घटनांचा कोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geliş açısı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

angolo di incidenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kąt padania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Кут падіння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

unghi de incidență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γωνία πρόσπτωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

invalshoek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

infallsvinkel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

innfallsvinkel
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANGLE OF INCIDENCE»

The term «angle of incidence» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.169 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about angle of incidence

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANGLE OF INCIDENCE»

Discover the use of angle of incidence in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to angle of incidence and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Angle of Incidence:
Angle. of. Incidence. Gwen Perry has the picture perfect life. Her Washington D.C. based photography business is booming, her husband's law career is lucrative, and after years of trying, they're only months away from the birth of their first ...
Christy Hayes, 2011
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Influence of Angle of Incidence on the Seismic Demands for ...
Figure 3.37 Fragility curves for ductility demands in the X-direction as a function of angle of incidence at a fundamental period of 0.5 s for model TUB1..................... ... 70 Figure 3.38 Dependence of average X-ductility on angle of incidence at a ...
Antonio Bruno Rigato, 2007
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Polarized Light, Revised and Expanded
25.3 PRINCIPAL ANGLE OF INCIDENCE MEASUREMENT OF REFRACTIVE INDEX AND EXTINCTION COEFFICIENT OF OPTICALLY ABSORBING MATERIALS In the previous section we saw that optically absorbing materials are  ...
Dennis Goldstein, Dennis H. Goldstein, 2003
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Weather and Climate
By the same token, the insolation varies with time of day because the sun comes up in the east, crosses the zenith at noon, and sets in the west, thereby causing the angle of incidence at any point on the earth to vary constantly during the day.
Paul E. Lydolph, 1985
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Polarized Light in Nature
64 The angle of incidence on the metal layer of a mirror is always rather steep; at almost any angle of incidence the plane of polarization is mirrored. Fig. 65 On passing through a doubly-refracting material, linearly polarized light is split into ...
G. P. Können, 1985
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The Climate of the Earth
By the same token, the insolation varies with time of day because the sun comes up in the east, crosses the zenith at noon, and sets in the west, thereby causing the angle of incidence at any point on the earth to vary constantly during the day.
Paul E. Lydolph, 1985
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Tau-p: a plane wave approach to the analysis of seismic ...
ANGLE OF INCIDENCE P(SEC/M)x10 0.0 70° 2.0 Jf Fig. 4. Tau-p transform (slant -stack) of the original shot-oriented field record shown in Figure 3. The individual traces in the transform domain are in units of time (zero-offset time) and involve ...
Paul L. Stoffa, 1989
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The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies
Figure 1.3 depicts the reflection of a light ray emanating from point A, reflected at point C by a mirrored surface l, and arriving at point B. The Law of Reflection states that the angle of incidence 9 is equal to the angle of reflection $. The Law of ...
Donald C. Benson, 1999
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High Speed Flow
(11.13.1) For example, the dependence of angle of reflection </>i — 9\ on angle of incidence <j>i in a lower-branch regular reflection is shown in Figure 11.13.1 as a series of curves at fixed P2I P\, equivalent to fixed £. The maximum angle of  ...
Christopher John Chapman, 2000
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The Handbook of Surface Imaging and Visualization
Figure 1 .5 The angle of incidence (<b) of an excitation beam of diameter d determines which portion of the sample surface area is illuminated. In like fashion , the polar angle of detection (4>) affects how much of a sample surface is probed  ...
Arthur T. Hubbard, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANGLE OF INCIDENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term angle of incidence is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Art Of The Ricochet
There seems to be a critical angle of incidence determining whether a bullet dives down into the water or bounces off into the stratosphere. «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
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Fundamental optics Momentum debate
... experiment, the team illuminate either mineral oil or water with a Gaussian green laser beam (wavelength 532 nm) at a 3° angle of incidence. «Nature.com, Jun 15»
3
Icon's A5 is for real
Steep turns with full back stick caused the wing to buffet and shake, yet the outboard wing panels with a lower angle of incidence kept flying, ... «AOPA Pilot, Jun 15»
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Nonlinear Mirrors' Bizarre Properties Could Prove Valuable For …
In standard mirrors, the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. For example, if a beam of light strikes a mirror at 45 degrees, it will ... «Tech Times, Jun 15»
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Weather Blog: Sundogs
The two refractions deviate the ray by 22° or more depending on the ray's initial angle of incidence when it enters the crystal. The condition ... «Turn to 10, Jun 15»
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Bernie Badger: Rare alignment brightens Saturn's rings
Our own moon brightens considerably when moving from 4 degrees to 0 degrees angle of incidence. Saturn's rings have just such a cumulative ... «Florida Today, May 15»
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India's Tejas and China's Xiaolong / JF-17 fighters compared
The reverse configuration is normally used to balance supersonic and subsonic or transonic capabilities. The Tejas has an angle of incidence ... «Ibcworldnews, May 15»
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India's Tejas and China's Xiaolong fighters compared
The reverse configuration is normally used to balance supersonic and subsonic or transonic capabilities. The Tejas has an angle of incidence ... «WantChinaTimes, May 15»
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Changing The Way We Think – Our Greatest Problem
Their innovative minds were introduced to the world two years later when Wilbur's articles, “Angle of Incidence,” published in Aeronautical ... «Sri Lanka Guardian, May 15»
10
Robots 101: Lasers
The cheapest and easiest way to do laser range-finding is by angle of incidence. Essentially, by knowing what angle the reflected laser light ... «Robohub, Apr 15»

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