solid angle

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   an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex)

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Questions about solid angle

What does solid angle mean?

solid angle means "an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex)".

Is solid angle a common word?

solid 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.