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angle of attack

DEFINITIONS OF: angle of attack

1

n the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil

Type of:
angle of incidence, incidence angle
the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence
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