exterior angle in English
noun
1
the angle between a side of a rectilinear figure and an adjacent side extended outward.
Also the Pythagoreans knew the generalisation which states that a polygon with n sides has sum of interior angles 2n - 4 right angles and sum of exterior angles equal to four right angles.
noun
external angle
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1. The position of this tower, situated upon an exterior angle, may indicate that the building was of a Z-plan construction.
2. Utilizing the extension of the polygon exterior angle sum theorem, directions of curvilinear polygons were judged and redundant polygons were deleted.