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grazing angle

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grazing angle [′graz·iŋ ‚aŋ·gəl]
(physics)
A very small glancing angle.


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7-11) The second, more specialized technique is an external reflection approach undertaken at grazing angle of incidence, which is often referred to as RAIRS (Reflection-Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy), (12) or some other similar acronym.
It provides enough detail to allow aircraft on an airfield to be located and counted from a long stand-off range, but the grazing angle must be large enough to avoid excessive masking of features.
9 fireball entered the atmosphere at a grazing angle, it lasted long enough for people in several states to videotape it for as long as 22 seconds, Hawkes says.
 
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