re-entering angle

British  

noun

1. Also called: re-entrant angle.  an interior angle of a polygon that is greater than 180°

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re-entering angle

The re-entering angle left upon the wood is called the rebate or rabbet.

From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William

At other times poles are laid across a re-entering angle of a house and used as a wood rack, without any support from the ground.

From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Nichols, Henry Hobart

At a re-entering angle of the junction, a shallow pit was sunk; the sand became moist and red, and presently it was underlaid by a rubble of porphyritic trap.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

There I waited in the re-entering angle of the transept, where the shadow of the church was darkest, in the hope of Maxwell's assailant soon returning to the scene of the encounter.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

In fortification, an old form of outwork, having its front broken into a re-entering angle, and its two long flanks converging towards the rear.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir