ORIGINAL: eddieC
Close. Originally, was the difference in angles for biplane wings.<a href=''http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalage''>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decalage</a>
Decalage is a French word that means displacement of two temperatures or measurements; also absence of concordance between two things.
Hence, it can be used in both cases, where two angles diverge.
I would like to add to the above discussion that stabs fly within the downwash produced by the wing (not for canard layouts); therefore, they normally have negative AOA (producing negative lift that compensates for wing's pitch moment), even when the incidence angle is set as neutral.