"dihedral angle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dihedral angles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dihedral angle (plural dihedral angles)
  1. (geometry) The angle between two planes. Wikipedia link: dihedral angle Categories (topical): Geometry Translations (angle between two planes): duedra angulo (Esperanto), diedrikulma (Finnish), Diederwinkel [masculine] (German), lapszög (Hungarian), diéderszög (Hungarian), angolo diedro [masculine] (Italian)

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