SPHERICAL ANGLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("spherical angle" is a kind of...):

angle (the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians)

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