spherical angle

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   an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles

   Broaderangle

Questions about spherical angle

What does spherical angle mean?

spherical angle means "an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles".

Is spherical angle a common word?

spherical 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.