Definition of External angle

1. Noun. The supplement of an interior angle of a polygon.

Exact synonyms: Exterior Angle
Generic synonyms: Angle
Specialized synonyms: Hip

Lexicographical Neighbors of External Angle

exterminatory
exterminatress
exterminatrix
extermine
extermined
extermines
extermining
extern
external
external-combustion engine
external absorption
external acoustic foramen
external acoustic meatus
external acoustic pore
external anal sphincter
external angle (current term)
external aperture of cochlear canaliculus
external aperture of vestibular aqueduct
external arcuate fibres
external artery of nose
external auditory canal
external auditory foramen
external auditory meatus
external axis of eye
external base of skull
external body part
external branch of accessory nerve
external branch of superior laryngeal nerve
external canthus
external capsule

Literary usage of External angle

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

1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"the orbits from right to left external angle was with the tape 5 A inches ; with the calipers just upon 5 inches. From the occipital protuberance to ..."

2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"external angle of cranial shield divided by a shallow notch into two, the postero- and antero- external angles; surface ornamented by fine tubercles, ..."

3. Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities by Raymond Unwin (1909)
"Diagrams showing the effect of the modifications in the usual space byelaws permitting the completion of an external angle in buildings showing four ..."

4. The London Medical Gazette (1841)
"... that then the external rectus of that side exerted so great an ascendancy as to completely turn the cornea to the external angle of the orbit, ..."

5. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea by William Aitcheson Haswell, Australian Museum (1882)
"... acute, divergent from their base, two-thirds of the length of the carapace. Spine at the antero-external angle of the base of the ..."

6. The Elementary Part of A Treatise on the Dynamics of a System of Rigid by Edward John Routh (1905)
"If the order of the rotations be reversed, the rotation about the resultant axis OC' would be twice the external angle at C', which is the same as that at ..."

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