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MILLIRADIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does milliradian mean? 

MILLIRADIAN (noun)
  The noun MILLIRADIAN has 1 sense:

1. a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radianplay

  Familiarity information: MILLIRADIAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MILLIRADIAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a radian

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("milliradian" is a kind of...):

angular unit (a unit of measurement for angles)

Meronyms (parts of "milliradian"):

microradian (a unit of angular distance equal to one thousandth of a milliradian)

Holonyms ("milliradian" is a part of...):

rad; radian (the unit of plane angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to the angle at the center of a circle subtended by an arc equal in length to the radius (approximately 57.295 degrees))


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