dispersion
dispersal
dissemination
diffusiona | the act of dispersing or diffusing something, the dispersion of the troops, the diffusion of knowledge |
| high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket
angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
| high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
wide-angle lens
fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
| optics | optical properties, the optics of a telescope |
| camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
distribution
dispersion | the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume, worldwide in distribution, the distribution of nerve fibers, in complementary distribution |
vagus
vagus nerve
nervus vagus
pneumogastric
pneumogastric nerve
tenth cranial nerve
wandering nerve | a mixed nerve that supplies the pharynx and larynx and lungs and heart and esophagus and stomach and most of the abdominal viscera |
| optics | the branch of physics that studies the physical properties of light |
| electron optics | the branch of electronics that deals with beams of electrons and their focusing and deflection by magnetic fields |
slant
angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
fiber optics
fiberoptics
fibre optics
fibreoptics | the transmission of light signals via glass fibers |
| bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
dispersion
scattering | spreading widely or driving off |
| hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
| straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
one-tenth
tenth
tenth part
ten percent | a tenth part, one part in ten equal parts |
| tenth | position ten in a countable series of things |
| helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
| angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle
HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
| plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
| spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
| solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
| inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle
reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
| salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle
internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle
external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |
angle of incidence
incidence angle | the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence |
| angle of attack | the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil |
| critical angle | the smallest angle of incidence for which light is totally reflected |
| angle of reflection | the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence |
| angle of refraction | the angle between a refracted ray and a line perpendicular to the surface between the two media at the point of refraction |
angle of extinction
extinction angle | the angle from its axis that a crystal must be rotated before appearing maximally dark when viewed in polarized light |
| acute angle | an angle less thandegrees but more than
degrees |
| obtuse angle | an angle betweenanddegrees |
| right angle | thedegree angle between two perpendicular lines |
| oblique angle | an angle that is not a right angle or a multiple of a right angle |
| reflex angle | an angle greater thandegrees (but less than ) |
perigon
round angle | an angle ofdegrees |
| cutting angle | the angle between the face of a cutting tool and the surface of the work |
dip
angle of dip
magnetic dip
magnetic inclination
inclination | (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon |
| polyhedral angle | the space enclosed by three or more planes that intersect in a vertex |
| face angle | the angle formed by two edges of a polyhedral angle |
| tilt angle | the angle a rocket makes with the vertical as it curves along its trajectory |
| vertical angle | either of two equal and opposite angles formed by the intersection of two straight lines |
view angle
angle of view | the angle included by a photographic lens |