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Having or formed by two plane faces.

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  • Swedish manufacturer Koenigsegg is also taking door design to a new level with what it calls the dihedral synchro-helix actuation system.
  • The angle between two planes is termed dihedral, between three trihedral, between any number more than three polyhedral.
  • Thoughts on "flight dynamics twist, dihedral and wingtips"
  • To counteract this large amount of dihedral, some geometric anhedral is required.
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