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:

    “Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics; we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    “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)