SALIENT ANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salient angle mean? 

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

1. an angle pointing outward; an interior angle of a polygon that is less than 180 degrees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALIENT ANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An angle pointing outward; an interior angle of a polygon that is less than 180 degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("salient 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)

Antonym:

reentrant angle (an interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180 degrees)