ACUTE ANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acute angle mean? 

• ACUTE ANGLE (noun)
  The noun ACUTE ANGLE has 1 sense:

1. an angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees

  Familiarity information: ACUTE ANGLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACUTE ANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angle less than 90 degrees but more than 0 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

oblique angle (an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle)

 Context examples 

The shape has four distinct sides making a parallelogram with two inner obtuse angles and two inner acute angles.

(Diamond, NCI Thesaurus)

It was not more than forty feet across at the mouth, but it rapidly closed until it ended in an acute angle, too straight and smooth for an ascent.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)