Ephemeris

Definition: Ephemeris

Ephemeris

Noun

1. An annual publication containing tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year; "today computers calculate the ephemerides".

Date "ephemeris" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Ephemeris

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	A periodical publication tabulating the predicted positions of celestial bodies at regular intervals, such as daily, and containing other data of interest to astronomers.A publication giving similar information useful to a navigator is called an almanac.Plural, ephemerides. (references)
Geological	A table of predicted satellite orbital locations for specific time intervals. The ephemeris data help to characterize the conditions under which remotely sensed data are collected and are commonly used to correct the sensor data prior to analysis. (references)
Math	A tabular statement of the spatial coordinates of a celestial body or a spacecraft as a function of time. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Ephemeris

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Book	Part, issue, number livraison; album, portfolio; periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
Instantaneity	Almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals, journal, diary, chronogram.
Record	Gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac, almanack; calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger; cashbook, petty cashbook; professional journal, scientific literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature, article, review article.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ephemeris

English words defined with "ephemeris": Ephemerides, ephemeris time, Ephemerist ♦ Moon-culminating. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ephemeris": astronomical constants ♦ Data Streams ♦ E.T., ephemeris data, ephemeris day, ephemeris second, ET ♦ mean solar second ♦ Newcomb tables of the sun. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Ephemeris

Domain	Title
Books	American Ephemeris for the 20th Century: 1900 to 2000 at Midnight/5th Revised (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Raphaels Astronomical Ephemeris (reference) Aavso Eclipsing Binary Ephemeris (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Roussakis: Ephemeris (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Ephemeris

"Ephemeris" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ephemeris" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	8	124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Ephemeris

Expressions using "ephemeris": ephemeris data ♦ ephemeris time. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ephemeris

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ephemeris	145
astrology ephemeris	20
astrological ephemeris	16
ephemeris online	11
2003 ephemeris	10
ephemeris satellite	9
computation ephemeris j2000	6
american ephemeris	4
electric ephemeris	4
chart ephemeris	4
ephemeris free	4
asteroid ephemeris	4
data ephemeris	3
ephemeris geocentric	3
ephemeris sphaera	2
astronomical ephemeris	2
daily ephemeris	2
ephemeris gps	2
ephemeris swiss	2
ephemeris solar	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ephemeris

Language		Translations for "ephemeris"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		efemerider. (various references)

Dutch		efemeriden, efemeride. (various references)

Finnish		efemeridi (astronomical tables). (various references)

French		éphémérides, éphéméride. (various references)

German		Ephemeriden (weather report). (various references)

Greek		εφημερίδα (daily newspaper, gazette, journal, newspaper, paper), αστρονομική εφημερίδα. (various references)

Italian		effemeridi astronomiche, effemeridi, effemeride (yearbook). (various references)

Manx		feaillere rollagydagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		ephemerisay

Portuguese		efemérides, efeméride. (various references)

Spanish		efemérides (diary, list of the day's anniversaries), efeméride (event). (various references)

Swedish		efemerid (astronomical tables). (various references)

Thai		ตารางที่แส�"งตำแหน่งของ�"วงอาทิตย์ �"วงจันทร์และ�"าวเคราะห์ต่างๆ ในช่วงเวลาหนึ่งในอนาคต. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Ephemeris

Misspellings
	"Ephemeris" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: echeverias, emphemeris, epemeris, ephemerids, ephemerus, ephemery, ephermeris. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ephemeris"

Words rhyming with "ephemeris" (pronounced 'E*phem"e*ris'): Ambergris, Anacharis, Arris, Cantoris, Cerris, Clitoris, Cypris, D'ebris, Delthyris, Doris, Epacris, Eucharis, Lampyris, Loris, Meleagris, Neuropteris, Osiris, Panegyris, Pecopteris, Pris, Procris, RIS, Sherris, Tomopteris, Xyris. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Ephemeris

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-m-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: emperies, epimeres, preemies.
	-2 letters: emeries, empires, emprise, epimere, epimers, hempier, imphees, imprese, meshier, peeries, preemie, premies, premise, seepier, spireme.
	-3 letters: emeers, empire, epimer, hempie, herpes, imphee, peerie, perish, premie, primes, rehems, remise, reship, seemer, sempre, shrimp, simper, sphere, spirem.
	-4 letters: eerie, emeer, emirs, epees, heirs, hemes, hemps, heres, herms, hires, meres, mires, miser, peers.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-m-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: ephemerids, hemisphere.
	+2 letters: ephemerides, euphemizers, hemispheres, reemphasize.
	+3 letters: reemphasized, reemphasizes.
	+4 letters: comprehensive, decipherments, encipherments, nephrectomies, overemphasize, replenishment.
	+5 letters: cephalometries, chemotherapies, comprehensible, ephemeralities, misapprehended, nephelometries, nephrectomizes, overemphasized, overemphasizes, phenmetrazines, pyrheliometers, replenishments, underemphasize.
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