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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles.
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- noun geometry A particular
dihedral angle , the angle between twointersecting arcs on asphere , measured by the angle between theplanes containing the arcs.
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- noun an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles
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