"dihedral angle" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1830, Pierce Morton, Geometry, Plane, Solid and Spherical, London: Baldwin and Cradock, page 136:",
          "text": "Any two dihedral angles are to one another as the angles contained by perpendiculars drawn as in the last proposition.",
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          "ref": "1981, Jane S. Richardson, “The Anatomy and Taxonomy of Protein Structure”, in C. B. Afinson, John T. Edsall, Frederic M. Richards, editors, Advances in Protein Chemistry, volume 34, page 173:",
          "text": "The remaining dihedral angles are the source of essentially all the interesting variability in protein conformation.",
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          "ref": "2009, Reza Abbaschian, Lara Abbaschian, Robert E. Reed-Hill, Physical Metallurgy Principles, Cengage Learning, page 176:",
          "text": "The significance of small dihedral angles is readily apparent in Fig. 6.20, where the shape of the intersection is shown for angles of 10° and 1°.",
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        "The angle between two planes."
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          "sense": "angle between two planes",
          "word": "duedra angulo"
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          "sense": "angle between two planes",
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          "word": "Diederwinkel"
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          "sense": "angle between two planes",
          "word": "lapszög"
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          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "angle between two planes",
          "word": "diéderszög"
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          "sense": "angle between two planes",
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          "word": "angolo diedro"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "angle between two planes",
      "word": "duedra angulo"
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      "sense": "angle between two planes",
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