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PREFERRED TERM

solid angle  

DEFINITION

  • altDef: measure of a subtended portion of a sphere, used to describe the apparent size of items in a three-dimensional field of view (bron: Wikidata, code: Q208476)
  • prefDef: measure of a conical geometric figure, called solid angle, formed by all rays, originating from a common point, called the vertex of the solid angle, and passing through the points of a closed, non-self-intersecting curve in space considered as the border of a surface (bron: Quantities and units, code: 3-8)

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