ANGULAR UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angular unit mean? 

• ANGULAR UNIT (noun)
  The noun ANGULAR UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a unit of measurement for angles

  Familiarity information: ANGULAR UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGULAR UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of measurement for angles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("angular unit" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "angular unit"):

mil (an angular unit used in artillery; equal to 1/6400 of a complete revolution)

arcdegree; degree (a measure for arcs and angles)

arcsecond; second (a 60th part of a minute of arc)

arcminute; minute; minute of arc (a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree)

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

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

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))

grad; grade (one-hundredth of a right angle)

oxtant (a unit of angular distance equal to half a quadrant)

sextant (a unit of angular distance equal to 60 degrees)

straight angle (an angle of 180 degrees)

sr; steradian (the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites)