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Definition of Incidence angle
1. Noun. The angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence.
Generic synonyms: Angle
Specialized synonyms: Angle Of Attack, Critical Angle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incidence Angle
Literary usage of Incidence angle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Optics by Robert Williams Wood (1914)
"when the incidence angle is so great that pA = 2 H cosine i, where p is a small
fraction ; therefore if we gradually increase the incidence angle, ..."
2. The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics: Especially as Applied to by James Powell Cocke Southall (1910)
"Therefore, equating these two values of sin a'2, we obtain in the case of finite
value of the incidence-angle a,: = j3l nL - I I. / cos a', ..."
3. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"angle of incidence, angle аи bond, '(art. ) grazing angle; ir, (ball.) angle between
axis of gun and horizontal, quadrant -angle of elevation (or depression ..."
4. Geometrical Optics: An Elementary Treatise Upon the Theory, and Its by Thomas Holmes Blakesley (1903)
"When the incidence angle is zero, the points indicated above coincide, and a
genuine image is produced at the position which K will under those ..."
5. French-English and English-French Dictionary of Aviation by Robert Morris Pierce (1918)
"... incidence ,f--si'd<rs /-. incidence. angle d'incidence, angle of incidence.
incidence variable, changeable angle of incidence. réglage de l'incidence, ..."
6. The Practical Surveyor's Guide: Containing the Necessary Information to Make by Andrew Duncan (1892)
"... angle-mirror 53 Laws of the reflection of light by plane mirrors 54 Axis of
incidence; Angle of incidence; Angle of reflection ; Explanation of the mode ..."
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