exterior angle

1. 1.

   the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon

   Synonymsexternal angle

   Broaderangle

   Narrowerhip

Questions about exterior angle

What does exterior angle mean?

exterior angle means "the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon".

What is another word for exterior angle?

Close synonyms include external angle. 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 exterior angle a common word?

exterior angle 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.