Difference between plane angle and solid angle

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Plane angle- usually refers to an angle in 2 dimensional figure like square, triangle, circle etc

Solid angle-usually refers to an angle in 3 dimensional figure like cube, cuboid, sphere etc
In three dimensions what a surface subtends on a point with the help of surfaces like cones and straight lines is a solid angle.

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