(Of a granular material) steepest angle of descent or dip relative to the horizontal plane to which a material can be piled without slumping.
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1His angle of repose makes him look even more childlike, hauntingly vulnerable.
2When thrown loosely in a heap, it assumed an angle of repose of about 45 degrees.
3There was another rubble-heap on Holborn, so fresh that it was still sledding toward its angle of repose.
4Billions of ice crystals pay obeisance to the laws of physics as they meet, interlock, and come to rest at the angle of repose.
5The soil is massive and does not crumble like ours and seek the angle of repose; it gives way in masses like a brick wall.
6Then, on Friday afternoon, when just enough snow had accumulated to upset the angle of repose on the slope above the team's bivy, everything slid.
7With better lenses I could measure the Angle of Repose and calculate the force of her gravity.
8As to the questions of the relative thrust of materials under various angles of repose, and of the necessity of dividing by the tangent, etc.
Translations for angle of repose