angle of incidence
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- noun
- Specialized
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ángulo de incidencia
- The angle of incidence is equal to the speed...
- the angle of incidence equals
This way, angle of incidence equals angle of reflection.
- This way, angle of incidence equals angle of reflection.
Examples
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This way, angle of incidence equals angle of reflection.
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And when I mention angle of incidence, I mean the angle of incidence with respect to the glass air interface.
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And this is the angle of incidence, right?
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However, their bandwidth per angle of incidence is limited to a relatively narrow range.
Academic text (2001) -
It's capable of angles of incidence that we couldn't otherwise see.
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He found that only the musk turtle model gained slightly more heat when the light source was at a 25-degree angle of incidence from the animal's head.
Academic text (1992) -
Research as far back as Heron of Alexandria has shown that when the ray strikes a mirror, the optimal angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
Academic text (1997) -
It was midnight, and the sun was dim, pale, and low on the jagged horizon, filling the sky with an unscattered light at an oblique angle of incidence, without critical vigor.
Fiction book (1996) -
The angle at which the ray hits the mirror is called the angle of incidence.
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Because of the sun's low angle of incidence, very little direct sunlight hits the ground.
Synonyms
The angle between incoming light and a line at a right angle to the surface
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: combining 'angle' (a measure between lines) with 'incidence' (the striking or arrival of a ray) yields the angle related to the incident ray, with 'of' marking the relation. This is a standard, cross-linguistically common technical naming pattern in physics, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The term angle of incidence describes the angle between a ray, like a beam of light, and a line that stands straight out from the surface where the ray meets it. Imagine light hitting a mirror: the angle from the light to that straight-up line is the 'angle of incidence', and that incidence, the idea of where the ray 'meets' the surface, explains why light bounces a certain way or why a wing gives more lift.