angle of inclination

1. 1.

   (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)

   Synonymsinclination

   Broaderangle

   geometry

Questions about angle of inclination

What does angle of inclination mean?

angle of inclination means "(geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)".

What is another word for angle of inclination?

Close synonyms include inclination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is angle of inclination a common word?

angle of inclination 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.