Acceptance Angle

Acceptance angle can refer to:

  • Half of the angular aperture of an optical system
  • Acceptance angle (optical fiber), the angle in an optical fiber below which rays are guided rays
  • Acceptance angle (solar concentrator)

Famous quotes containing the words acceptance and/or angle:

    “Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven’s pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)