WikiWord

English

angle of attack

noun

Meaning

  1. The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil.
  2. The angle between a mid-sail and the direction of the wind.

Etymology / origin

No prose etymology has been added yet.

No ancestor words have been linked yet.

Related words

Descendant words

No descendant words have been linked yet.

Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
angle of attack — meaning and etymology | WikiWord