PLANE ANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plane angle mean? 

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

1. an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLANE ANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("plane 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)

 Context examples 

A unit of plane angle measurement equal to 1/400 circle, 0.01 right angle, 0.9 degree, or 0,01570796 rad.

(Gon, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of plane angle measurement equal to the length of the arc cut out by the angle, divided by the circumference of the circle, and multiplied by 360.

(Degree Unit of Plane Angle, NCI Thesaurus)

A traditional unit of plane angle measurement equal to two pi radians or 360 degrees.

(Circle Unit of Plane Angle, NCI Thesaurus)