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

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

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

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

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 Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir

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