angle of incidence vs angle of attack

angle of incidence and angle of attack both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
angle of incidence	Yes	No	No	No
angle of attack	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, angle of attack is a hyponym of angle of incidence; that is, angle of attack is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than angle of incidence:

angle of incidence: the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence
angle of attack: the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil

Other hyponyms of angle of incidence include critical angle.

angle of incidence (noun)	angle of attack (noun)
the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence	the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil

angle of incidence vs angle of attack

angle of incidence and angle of attack both are nouns.

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