angle of reflection

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   the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence

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Questions about angle of reflection

What does angle of reflection mean?

angle of reflection means "the angle between a reflected ray and a line perpendicular to the reflecting surface at the point of incidence".

Is angle of reflection a common word?

angle of reflection 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.