CRITICAL ANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does critical angle mean? 

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

1. the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRITICAL ANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

angle of incidence; incidence angle (the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence)