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ANGLE

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in geometry, the inclination of two lines meeting one another in a point, and called the legs of the angle. See GEOMETRY.

Angle of Incidence, in optics, the angle which a ray of light makes with a perpendicular to that point of the surface of any medium on which it falls; though it is sometimes understood of the angle which it makes with the surface itself.