ANGLE OF ATTACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does angle of attack mean? 

• ANGLE OF ATTACK (noun)
  The noun ANGLE OF ATTACK has 1 sense:

1. the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLE OF ATTACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

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

angle of incidence; incidence angle (the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence)