dihedral angle
Noun
Meaning
dihedral angle (plural dihedral angles)
(geometry) The angle between two planes.
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C AE is the cosine of the dihedral angle along an AE edge.
C EE is the cosine of the dihedral angle along an EE edge.
Angle of attack of the leading arm and the dingle arm can be adjusted, as can the overall dihedral angle of the wings all with some effect.
Hence, the tesseract has a dihedral angle of 90°.
In more general terms, they adopt dihedral angles such that the ψ dihedral angle of one residue and the φ dihedral angle of the next residue sum to roughly -105°.
In the rhombic triacontahedron the dihedral angle between any two adjacent rhombi is 144°, which is twice the isosceles angle of a golden triangle and four times its most acute angle.