angle of attack

1. 1.

   the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil

   Broaderangle of incidence

Questions about angle of attack

What does angle of attack mean?

angle of attack means "the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil".

Is angle of attack a common word?

angle of attack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.