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Apogee

That point in the orbit of the moon which is at the greatest distance from the earth.

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Phase 76% connected

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same o…

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Apogean 74% connected

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

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Apogean 74% connected

Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.

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Culmination 92% connected

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Absolute magnitude noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth

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Apoapsis noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the point in an orbit farthest from the body being orbited

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Autumnal equinox noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the equinoctial point that lies in the constellation of Virgo

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Barycenter noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the common center of mass around which two or more bodies revolve

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Celestial latitude noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with r…

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Celestial longitude noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to…

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Copernican system noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun

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Date of reference noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is…

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Dec noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with r…

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Ephemeris time noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities…

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Equinoctial point noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) either of the two celestial points at which the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic

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Extragalactic nebula noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; "‘extragalactic…

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Hour angle noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the righ…

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Hubble law noun · 78% connection

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Hubble's law noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the generalization that the speed of recession of distant galaxies (the red shift) is proportional to their distance from…

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Inclination noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees

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Inclination of an orbit noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees

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Inferior conjunction noun · 78% connection

(astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun

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Aberration noun · 78% connection

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

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Aphelion noun · 78% connection

apoapsis in solar orbit; the point in the orbit of a planet or comet that is at the greatest distance from the sun

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Apolune noun · 78% connection

apoapsis in orbit around the moon

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Aposelene noun · 78% connection

apoapsis in orbit around the moon

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Apsis noun · 78% connection

One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, co…

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Clearance noun · 78% connection

The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a stea…

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Crescent noun · 78% connection

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the ol…

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Curtate adjective · 78% connection

Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the dist…

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Directrix noun · 78% connection

A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio t…

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Eccentric noun · 78% connection

In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.

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Eccentricity noun · 78% connection

The ratio of the distance of the center of the orbit of a heavenly body from the center of the body round which it revolves to the sem…

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Eclipse noun · 78% connection

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either b…

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