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Meanings of axial tilt in English

Russian
наклон оси вращения планеты
Portuguese
obliquidade da eclíptica
Catalan
obliqüitat
Spanish
oblicuidad de la ecliptica

Angle between the rotational axis and orbital axis of a body.

        наклон оси вращения планеты
        Synonyms
        Examples for "obliquity"
        Examples for "obliquity"
        1
        For his indiscretions, never involving moral obliquity, he had most grievously answered.
        Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman
        2
        In their opinion, only the strangest obliquity of judgment can explain such infatuation.
        The Irish Race in the Past and the Present
        3
        There seemed to be a kind of natural obliquity about her.
        Elsie Venner
        4
        We are told that the difference is one of moral obliquity.
        The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910)
        5
        But this now carries with it no implication of moral obliquity.
        On Compromise
        1
        The Chinese also determined the obliquity of the ecliptic eleven hundred years before our era.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03: Ancient Achievements
        2
        The obliquity of the ecliptic is, to a degree, sustained by the relationship between Moon and Earth.
        Moonfall
        3
        Technically, the difference is due to the eccentricity of the earth's orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic.
        The Irish Times
        4
        By these he had calculated the obliquity of the ecliptic, closely enough to serve for a thousand years after.
        Alexandria and Her Schools / Four Lectures Delivered at the Phil...
        5
        Pythagoras taught the obliquity of the ecliptic, probably learned in Egypt, and the identity of the morning and evening stars.
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03: Ancient Achievements
        Usage of axial tilt in English
        1
        Also Venus has no significant axial tilt, which means no seasons.
        Analog sff, december 2009
        2
        It needed a Moon to stabilise its axial tilt.
        What does a martian look like?
        3
        It's because of the Earth's axial tilt.
        Pandaemonium
        4
        No axial tilt to speak of.
        Dogs of war
        5
        This demonstration helps pupils understand why the Earth's axial tilt ensures it's hotter at the equator than at higher latitudes
        The Guardian
        6
        Mischna adds: Without something like the Moon, essentially locking the Earth into place, the axial tilt tends to wobble back and forth.
        Analog sff, december 2009
        7
        They did well, astonishingly so, but the long-term effects of the axial tilt produced diastrophism and a great ice age within a few centuries.
        Midnight at the well of souls
        8
        With a small axial tilt and uncomfortable proximity to its bright primary, the planet's climate was predominantly hot and humid, a perennial tropical summer.
        The Reality Dysfunction
        9
        But the planet also had an extreme axial tilt, literally lying on its side as it circled its hot primary once each four years.
        Earth strike: star carrier: book one
        10
        While it lacked the mountains and extreme axial tilt which made Gryphon's weather so... interesting, it also lacked the climate-moderating effect of Gryphon's extensive oceans.
        Ashes Of Victory
        11
        Manticore's climatic zones and regions are comparable to Earth, but cover a larger temperate zone, due to favorable ocean currents and a lower axial tilt.
        House of Steel
        12
        "I think their world had little or no axial tilt," Giacomo said.
        Anvil of stars
        13
        We've rounded up all the most frequently asked questions, from folklore and celebrations, to axial tilts and orbits around the sun.
        The South African
        14
        He found Craig and Anders, the only two who might know anything about Ragnarok's axial tilts, and told them what he had seen.
        Space Prison