EXTERNAL ANGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does external angle mean? 

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

1. the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTERNAL ANGLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The supplement of an interior angle of a polygon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

exterior angle; external angle

Hypernyms ("external 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "external angle"):

hip ((architecture) the exterior angle formed by the junction of a sloping side and a sloping end of a roof)