REENTRANT ANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reentrant angle mean? 

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

1. an interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180 degrees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REENTRANT ANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

reentering angle; reentrant angle

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

interior angle; internal angle (the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon)

Antonym:

salient angle (an angle pointing outward; an interior angle of a polygon that is less than 180 degrees)