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angle of repose

angle of repose noun: the steepest angle at which granular material can be piled without material sliding off of the pile.

angle of repose: the steepest angle at which granular material can be piled without material sliding off of the pile
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Noun

angle of repose (plural angles of repose)

  1. The steepest angle at which granular material can be piled without material sliding off of the pile.

angle of repose meaning in Tamil

angle of repose in Tamil

கிடைக்கோணம், சயனக்கோணம், மண் சரிவு கோணம், குவிநிலைக் கோணம், குவி நிலைக் கோணம்

Forms of angle of repose

pluralangles of repose

Questions about angle of repose

What does angle of repose mean?
Angle of repose means the steepest angle at which granular material can be piled without material sliding off of the pile.
What is angle of repose in Tamil?
Angle of repose in Tamil is கிடைக்கோணம், சயனக்கோணம், மண் சரிவு கோணம். See Angle of repose meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is angle of repose?
Angle of repose is a noun.
What is the plural of angle of repose?
The plural of angle of repose is angles of repose.

Words near angle of repose in the dictionary

  1. angle of incidence
  2. angle of loll
  3. angle of Louis
  4. angle of reflection
  5. angle of refraction
  6. angle of repose
  7. angle of torsion
  8. angle of vanishing stability
  9. angle of view
  10. angle parking
  11. angle quote

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Adapted from Wiktionary: angle of repose (page history and authors); angle of repose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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