ANGLE OF ATTACK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("angle of attack" is a kind of...):

angle of incidence; incidence angle (the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence)