Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun angle_of_attack

1 sense of angle of attack

Sense 1
angle of attack -- (the acute angle between the direction of the undisturbed relative wind and the chord of an airfoil)
       => angle of incidence, incidence angle -- (the angle that a line makes with a line perpendicular to the surface at the point of incidence)