Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

euler angle

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.78 in modern English

Syllables: eu-ler an-gle
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any one of three angles which together describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed three-dimensional coordinate system, according to a formalism introduced by Leonhard Euler.

Example Sentences

"Euler angles can also represent the orientation of a mobile frame of reference in physics or the orientation of a basis in 3-dimensional linear algebra."
"The use of Euler angles or Quaternions to represent entity (i.e., vehicle) orientation in the draft military standard for Distributed Interactive Simulation has drawn fierce debate."
"We have not drawn a picture, since Euler angle pictures of three-dimensional rotations are notoriously difficult to comprehend; what is very useful is for the reader to make a set of wire axes with labels to help follow the sequence of rotations."
"Why do we need to know what Euler angles are? Because we use them. Many commercial 3D computer animation packages that are available today use Euler angles to describe and change orientations of objects."

Etymology

Named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).

Inflected Forms

Euler angles (plural)

Phrases

Tait-Bryan angle

Frequently Paired Words

Tait-Bryan angle

Questions

What does euler angle mean?: Any one of three angles which together describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed three-dimensional coordinate system, according to a formalism introduced by Leonhard Euler.
Where does euler angle come from?: Named after Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783).

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