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单词 angle of deflection, deviation, dip, elevation, inclination, rotation
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angle of deflection, deviation, dip, elevation, inclination, rotation
b. With of in noun phrases. The magnitude of the inclination of a line or plane with respect to another in a particular context or situation (esp. in Optics, Geology, and Aeronautics and similar subjects), as angle of approach (also angle of deflection, deviation, dip, elevation, inclination, rotation). See also specific instances at Phrases 2.angle of contingence, extinction, pitch, rake, torsion, weather: see at second element.
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1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 137 Directe the ruler with hys two sightes vnto anye one place that you do see, & marke diligently the Angle of sight.
1585 J. Blagrave Math. Iewel 104 You shal fynd 32.deg.⅓. the angle of deflexion.
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. vii. 177 The Angle of Vision (as we finde it taught in the Perspectiues) doth not extend to a right Angle, but is somewhat lesse.
1666 J. Wallis Let. 24 July in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1966) III. 195 Why the Crookedness of an Arch, should be called an Angle of Contact; I know no other reason, but, because Mr. Hobs loves to call that Chalk, which others call Cheese.
1719 W. Whiston Longitude & Latitude found by Inclinatory or Dipping Needle 29 Suppose we are Travelling or Sailing along the Meridian of London, and we find the Angle of Dip, or Inclination to be 75°.
1790 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 154 By the means of this piece of mechanism in the eye-end of the telescope..small angles of elevation or depression may be determined with great accuracy.
1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics iv. §35. 29 The angular change of direction or the angle of deviation as it is called.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius vii. 180 The usual angle of rest in loose materials.
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 266/1 An instrument for measuring the angle of dip of a rock formation.
1954 J. F. Kirkaldy Gen. Princ. Geol. xi. 158 A petrological microscope..differs..in having a rotating stage with means for measuring the angle of rotation.
1986 Cruising July 4/3 The angle of dip..is said to be positive in the northern hemisphere where the north end of the needle is inclined downwards.
2006 Gloucestershire Echo (Nexis) 2 Nov. 5 Accident investigators ruled that neither pilot could have avoided the collision because of their angles of approach.
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