dihedral angle
Noun
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Noun
dihedral angle (plural dihedral angles)
- (geometry) The angle between two planes.
- 1830, Pierce Morton, Geometry, Plane, Solid and Spherical, Baldwin and Cradock, London, page 136 ↗,
- Any two dihedral angles are to one another as the angles contained by perpendiculars drawn as in the last proposition.
- 1981, Jane S. Richardson, The Anatomy and Taxonomy of Protein Structure, C. B. Afinson, John T. Edsall, Frederic M. Richards (editors), Advances in Protein Chemistry, Volume 34, page 173 ↗,
- The remaining dihedral angles are the source of essentially all the interesting variability in protein conformation.
- 2009, Reza Abbaschian, Lara Abbaschian, Robert E. Reed-Hill, Physical Metallurgy Principles, Cengage Learning, page 176 ↗,
- The significance of small dihedral angles is readily apparent in Fig. 6.20, where the shape of the intersection is shown for angles of 10° and 1°.
- 1830, Pierce Morton, Geometry, Plane, Solid and Spherical, Baldwin and Cradock, London, page 136 ↗,
- German: Diederwinkel
- Italian: angolo diedro
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