POLAR DISTANCE

  

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POLAR DISTANCE

Definition: POLAR DISTANCE

POLAR DISTANCE

1. The angular distance of any point on a sphere from one of its poles, particularly of a heavenly body from the north pole of the heavens.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definitions: POLAR DISTANCE

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Aerospace

Angular distance from a celestial pole; the arc of an hour circle between a celestial pole, usually the elevated pole, and a point on the celestial sphere, measured from the celestial pole through 180 degrees.If the declination, d, and the celestial pole are of the same name, the polar distance is 90 degrees - d, but if of contrary name, it is 90 degrees + d. See codeclination. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Polar distance

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Polar distance (PD) is an astronomical term associated with the celestial equatorial coordinate system Σ(α, δ) and it is an angular distance of a celestial object on its meridian measured from the celestial pole, similar as declination (dec, δ) is measured from the celestial equator:

PD = 90° ± δ .

Polar distance are expressed in degrees and cannot exceed 90° in magnitude. An object on the celestial equator has a PD of 90°.

Polar distance is not affected by the precession of the equinoxes.

If the polar distance of the Sun is equal to the observer's latitude, the shadow path of a gnomon's tip on a sundial will be a parabola; at higher latitudes it will be an ellipse and lower, a hyperbola.

In geometry a polar distance, typically denoted r is a coordinate in polar coordinate systemss (r, θ) and (r, θ, h).

The distance d between two points P1 and P2 with their polar coordinates (r1, θ1) and (r2, θ2) in two dimensional circular polar coordinate system is given by the polar distance formula:

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Polar distance is used also in botany in classification of pollens.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Polar distance."

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Crosswords: POLAR DISTANCE

English words defined with "POLAR DISTANCE": North polar distance. (references)
Specialty definitions using "POLAR DISTANCE": codeclination, cylindrical coordinates ♦ plan position indicator, polar coordinates ♦ rho-theta system. (references)

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Expression: POLAR DISTANCE

Expression using "POLAR DISTANCE": North polar distance. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: POLAR DISTANCE

Language Translations for "POLAR DISTANCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

極距離 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きょくきょり. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olarpay istanceday

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Anagrams: POLAR DISTANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: declarations.

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-4 letters: acroleins, acropetal, adaptions, aerations, airplanes, aleatoric, alienator, alopecias, analcites, analeptic, anapestic, ancestral, androecia, anecdotal.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+4 letters: compartmentalised, microencapsulated.

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Alternative Orthography: POLAR DISTANCE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 4C 41 52      44 49 53 54 41 4E 43 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01001100 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000100 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#76 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#68 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 004C 0041 0052      0044 0049 0053 0054 0041 004E 0043 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504946355223843535435483739

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Non-English Dictionaries with "POLAR DISTANCE"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Japanese Kanji

辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ"

Japanese Katakana

じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ"
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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