- 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...
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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...
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straightforward sports biopic,
which puts on a good show even if it only
glancingly grapples with the
surface details of its true story." Metacritic, which...
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fraught with "self-consciousness (especially in the
first act) [and] only
glancingly acquainted with the two
characters she plays."
Brantley also criticized...
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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...
- of Earth's m****,
named Theia,
collided with Earth. It hit
Earth with a
glancing blow and some of its m****
merged with Earth.
Between approximately 4.0...
- The
Tunguska event was a
large explosion of
between 10 and 40
megatons that
occurred near the
Podkamennaya Tunguska River in
Yeniseysk Governorate (now...
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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...
- by England. He was also
known as one of the
foremost exponents of the
glancing header,
scoring many
goals with this technique,
which made him particularly...
