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intentionally or
unconsciously done in a quick, subtle, or
hidden way. "
Glancing" and "glimpsing" are
terms that
imply looking at
things in a
subtle way...
- 90-degree
complement to the
angle of
incidence is
called the
grazing angle or
glancing angle.
Incidence at
small grazing angles is
called "grazing incidence."[citation...
- Look up
angle of
incidence in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Angle of
incidence is a
measure of
deviation of
something from "straight on" and may refer...
- The
Tunguska event was a
large explosion of
between 3 and 50
megatons that
occurred near the
Podkamennaya Tunguska River in
Yeniseysk Governorate (now...
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disappears into it. Ray is
angry at not
being invited but Joe
rebukes him,
glancing towards the
catcher at home plate, saying, "If you
build it, he will come...
-
sighted the iceberg.
Unable to turn
quickly enough, the ship
suffered a
glancing blow that
buckled the
steel plates covering her
starboard side and opened...
-
rarely in the
polar regions (where the Sun and Moon rise and set at a
glancing angle or not at all). By contrast, a dry moon is one
where the crescent...
- identify; on one
occasion he
correctly guessed the
record without even
glancing at it. Newkirk, Greg (August 7, 2012). "Extraordinary Occurrences: The...
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slightly less than 1, and
therefore total external reflection can
happen at a
glancing angle. It is
called external because the
light bounces off the exterior...
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biographical details on
Nashe which would otherwise not be known, and
makes a
glancing reference to the
rising Cambridge satirist,
Joseph Hall. The
Trimming of...
