Found 2 items, similar to Interior angle.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: interior angle
interior angle
n : the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon [syn:
internal angle
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Interior angle
Interior
\In*te"ri*or\, a. [L., compar. fr. inter between: cf.
F. int['e]rieur. See
Inter-, and cf.
Intimate.]
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1. Being within any limits, inclosure, or substance; inside;
internal; inner; -- opposed to
exterior, or
superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the
interior surface of a hollow ball.
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2. Remote from the limits, frontier, or shore; inland; as,
the interior parts of a region or country.
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Interior angle (Geom.), an angle formed between two sides,
within any rectilinear figure, as a polygon, or between
two parallel lines by these lines and another intersecting
them; -- called also
internal angle.
Interior planets (Astron.), those planets within the orbit
of the earth.
Interior screw, a screw cut on an interior surface, as in a
nut; a female screw.
Syn: Internal; inside; inner; inland; inward.
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