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MERIDIAN | Great circle of earth | |
EQUATOR | Great circle of earth | |
ECLIPTIC | 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. | |
ORBIT | Circle (Earth) | |
AGE | A great period in the history of the Earth. | |
ORTHODROMY | The act or art of sailing on a great circle. | |
ZONE | One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect to latitude and temperature. | |
OCEANUS | The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth. | |
ASTROLABE | A stereographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. | |
TETRAGON | An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. | |
INCLINNOMETER | An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle. | |
CIRCUIT | The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun. | |
HORIZON | The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky. | |
DEFERENT | An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round. | |
BIQUINTILE | An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees. | |
SNOW | Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. | |
DRIER | One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth. | |
TRIOCTILE | An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are three octants, or three eighths of a circle, that is, 135 degrees, distant from each other. | |
CYCLOPEDIC | Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; of the nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount; as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge. | |
ORTHODROMICS | The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy. | |
HYPOGENE | ...ace; -- said of granite, gneiss, and other rocks, whose crystallization is believed of have taken place beneath a great thickness of overlying ... | |
HEAVEN | The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the ... | |
SECTOR | ...races a small portion only of a circle, used for measuring differences of declination too great for the compass of a micrometer. When it is used... | |
ELLIPTICITY | Deviation of an ellipse or a spheroid from the form of a circle or a sphere; especially, in reference to the figure of the earth, the differenc... | |
POLE | A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter o... |