Word.ws English Dictionary

Mach angle

Mach angle noun: the angle at which shock waves separate from an object travelling supersonically. The angle is related to the Mach number of the supersonic object.

mach angle: the angle at which shock waves separate from an object travelling supersonically. The angle is...
Image: Settles1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Mach angle (plural Mach angles)

  1. The angle at which shock waves separate from an object travelling supersonically. The angle is related to the Mach number of the supersonic object.

Mach angle meaning in Tamil

Mach angle in Tamil

மாக்கின்கோணம்

Forms of Mach angle

pluralMach angles

Origin of Mach angle

From Mach (“Ernst Mach”) + angle.

Questions about Mach angle

What does Mach angle mean?
Mach angle means the angle at which shock waves separate from an object travelling supersonically. The angle is related to the Mach number of the supersonic object.
What is Mach angle in Tamil?
Mach angle in Tamil is மாக்கின்கோணம். See Mach angle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Mach angle?
Mach angle is a noun.
What is the plural of Mach angle?
The plural of Mach angle is Mach angles.

Words near Mach angle in the dictionary

  1. MacGyvering
  2. MacGyverism
  3. MacGyverisms
  4. MacGyvers
  5. Mach
  6. Mach angle
  7. Mach angles
  8. Mach band
  9. Mach bands
  10. mach bhaja
  11. Mach cone

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Mach angle (page history and authors); mach angle (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Mach angle.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mach_angle. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.