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Meanings of ecliptic in English
Synonyms
Examples for "ecliptic plane"
Examples for "ecliptic plane"
1
Zodiacal Zydeco: Talks about the ecliptic plane, or Zodiac, of the planets.
2
Willis made the usual tests for direction of rotation, to get the ecliptic plane.
3
The blackhawk rose up out of the ecliptic plane in a long, graceful curve.
4
"Change course three degrees starboard, one degree down on ecliptic plane," ordered Strong calmly.
Usage of ecliptic in English
1
How far the sun actually appears to have gotten around the ecliptic.
2
The orbit was high-inclination, the rock a long way from the ecliptic.
3
Zodiacal Zydeco: Talks about the ecliptic plane, or Zodiac, of the planets.
4
The equator, the line of the horizon, the ecliptic, the meridian:
5
You must stay further away from the plane of the ecliptic.
6
Three degrees on the down-plane of the ecliptic, and fifty-four degrees to starboard.
7
Red icons were bracketing two of the brighter stars just outside the ecliptic.
8
The girl's ship continues accelerating off the plane of the ecliptic.
9
So you'd look near the ecliptic, which is what we call that plane.
10
Orbits marked in wide swaths of color showed the plane of the ecliptic.
11
The ecliptic corresponds to the plane of the Earth's orbit about the Sun.
12
On the longitude of the ascending node of the lunar orbit on the ecliptic.
13
There is no distinction between the equator and the ecliptic.
14
He determined the plane of the moon's orbit and its inclination to the ecliptic.
15
Willis made the usual tests for direction of rotation, to get the ecliptic plane.
16
The blackhawk rose up out of the ecliptic plane in a long, graceful curve.
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Translations for ecliptic
Russian
Catalan
Ecliptic through the time
Ecliptic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common