re-entering angle

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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

Sinus, a recess or bay; the re-entering angle between two lobes or projections.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

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 Sir Edward Belcher

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

Both of these latter differ from his 1797 trace in that the re-entering angle is reinforced by a tenaille whose faces are parallel to the main faces and reach almost to the salients.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

It was a right-angled position and Dr. Jameson attacked them in the re-entering angle, thus having fire on his front and flank.

From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick

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