ECLIPTIC
\ɪklˈɪptɪk], \ɪklˈɪptɪk], \ɪ_k_l_ˈɪ_p_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of ECLIPTIC
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.
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Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.
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Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.
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A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; - used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
By Oddity Software
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A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.
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Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.
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Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.
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A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; - used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
By Noah Webster.
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The great circle which is the apparent path of the sun, or real path of the earth in the heavens during a year.
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Pertaining to the darkening of a heavenly body.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The line in which eclipses take place, the apparent path of the sun round the earth:-a great circle on the globe corresponding to the celestial ecliptic.
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Pertaining to the ecliptic.
By Daniel Lyons
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That plane, passing through the center of the sun, which contains the or bit of the earth.
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The apparent path of the sun around the celestial sphere.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. An imaginary great circle of the sphere, which is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth: is soon from the sun;—a great circle on the terrestrial globe, answering to the celestial ecliptic.
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n. [Greek] Pertaining to, or described by, the ecliptic;—pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.