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Adumbrate
verb · 78% connection
To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Anomaly
noun · 78% connection
The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Anthelion
noun · 78% connection
A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Belemnite
noun · 78% connection
A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinaril…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Brother german
unknown · 78% connection
A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Chart
noun · 78% connection
A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Conical
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of, or resembling, a geometrical cone; round and tapering to a point, or gradually lessening in circumference; as, a c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Cop
noun · 78% connection
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Cyclorama
noun · 78% connection
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature.…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Dexter
adjective · 78% connection
On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representa…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Dispositor
noun · 78% connection
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Epicycle
noun · 78% connection
A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Immersion
noun · 78% connection
The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Inequality
noun · 78% connection
An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
Kepler's second law
noun · 78% connection
a law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times; "…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conical, shadow, projected, planet, satellite.
