Related Words

Acute Angle: An angle that is less than 90 degrees.

Angle Of Attack: The acute angle at which a moving airfoil meets the airstream.

High Angle: A shot in which the camera is placed higher than the filmed actor or object, so that the camera looks down on the actor or object.

Interfacial Angle: The angle between two crystal faces of a crystal, characteristic of a mineral's symmetry.

Helix Angle: The angle between the direction of the threads around a screw and a line running at a right angle to the shank.

Launch Angle: The initial trajectory of the ball relative to the ground

Lie Angle: The angle between the sole of the club and the shaft from the face view (looking at the face of the club straight on)

Freytags Triangle: Another term for Freytag's Pyramid (see above).

Entry Angle: The angle relative to the pocket that the balls enters the pocket. As a rule, increased angle means increased strikes (hence the preference for a ball that hooks a lot or for clean back ends.)

Eulerian Angles: a set of three angles that define an orientation, or direction, in space. It goes back to the mathematician Euler, and was used to describe motions in celestial mechanics.