Sentence examples for minute of angle from inspiring English sources
noun
An angle, one sixtieth (1/60th) of a degree, used by gunners as a measurement of accuracy. One minute of angle is roughly equal to 1 inch at 100 yards distance.
Built on a 35mm main tube, Leupold's 7-35x will be available in both milliradian and Minute Of Angle (MOA) versions.
Note that the unit of the magnetic D component is in "minute" of angle and indicated as "a" for simplicity in the figure.
The current crop of AR15 variants have achieved much higher accuracy, and are often advertised as capable of sub-MOA (Minute Of Angle) accuracy.
This means they can group shots within one "minute" of angle (roughly 1" at 100 yards) which is competitive with the better bolt guns.
Sights that use dot reticles are almost invariably measured in minutes of angle, or "MOA".
From this distance LED diameters and center-to-center distances were 4.92 and 9.23 minutes of visual angle, respectively, and the full array was 9.80 × 9.80 degrees of visual angle.
The difference is partly the result of the extent of the Sun's disk, which accounts for 16 minutes of the angle, and the distorting effect of the atmosphere, which acts as a lens and allows the Sun to be seen when it is actually below the horizon.
With the diameter being less than 5 minutes of visual angle, it is appropriate to consider each LED to be a point source, and thus to specify brightness as luminous intensity, as detailed below.
Most of us are used to measuring angles in degrees: there are 360 degrees in a circle, the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees, etc. Minutes and seconds are just smaller units of angle.
After a few minutes, contact angle of water droplet on SWNHs/PS surface decreased to 64.7° (Additional file 1: Figure S5).
Someone with 20/20 vision (6/6 in metric terms) can resolve a spatial pattern (of, say, a letter in the alphabet) where each element within it subtends an angle of one minute of arc when viewed from a distance of 20 feet (six metres).
