Meanings of angular distance in английском

The angular distance from Atlas to Pleione is 5′.

At an angular distance of more than eighty paces the quadruman had been shot full in the head.

You could also estimate the index of refraction by measuring the angular distance between the head and body.

If from the same side two currents of air at an angular distance of 15° are directed against circle No.

The cylinders were of steel, arranged in two groups or rows of four, the angular distance between them being 90 degrees.

But wherever it happened to be, the determination of the angular distance east or west of the zero line was a problem.

This, I believe, consists in obtaining with the proper instruments the angular distance between the moon and some one of the stars.

When it is at its greatest angular distance from the sun, as A or C, we see it illuminated like the half-moon.

On one occasion Malm saw a young fish raise and depress the lower eye through an angular distance of about seventy degrees.

The angular distance between the head and the body would stay the same but the angular size of both the head and increase.

The micrometer as used in telescopes enables the observer to measure accurately small angular distances.

They explained the doctrine of the sphere and the apparent motions of the planets, but they had no instruments capable of measuring angular distances.

It is furnished for this purpose with eight disks, each of which contains a given number of circles of holes arranged at different angular distances.