interior angle

American  

noun

Geometry.

1. an angle formed between parallel lines by a third line that intersects them.

2. an angle formed within a polygon by two adjacent sides.

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interior angle British  

noun

1. an angle of a polygon contained between two adjacent sides

2. any of the four angles made by a transversal that lie inside the region between the two intersected lines

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interior angle Scientific  

/ ĭn-tîr′ē-ər /

1. Any of the four angles formed inside two straight lines when these lines are intersected by a third straight line.

2. An angle formed by two adjacent sides of a polygon and included within the polygon.

3. Compare exterior angle

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Etymology

Origin of interior angle

First recorded in 1750–60

Example Sentences

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interior angle

Each interior angle of a regular heptagon is a bit over 128 degrees, so when we put three of them together at a vertex, we get more than 360 degrees.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2013

I got the first cut, but again, when I started cutting the interior angle, the bar worked its way out of the jig, and the tool dug in and broke.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

He would look at the acute interior angle which it formed at the eyes, and think it much too acute to be pleasant and much too interior to be pretty.

From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry

The narrow entrance is at the exterior angle of the L, between the water-battery and the lighthouse; and in the interior angle are the Castelli, Konak, &c.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

Each interior angle contains strong and massive squinches which are of no constructive use at present, and must have been originally inserted to carry some superstructure.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See by Bygate, Joseph E.