Celestial Horizon

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Celestial Horizon

Definition: Celestial Horizon

Celestial Horizon

Noun

1. The great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth.

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Specialty Definition: Celestial Horizon

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Aerospace

That great circle of the celestial sphere formed by the intersection of the celestial sphere and a plane through the center of the earth and perpendicular to the zenith-nadir line. Also called rational horizon. See horizon, horizon system. (references)

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Synonym: Celestial Horizon

Synonym: horizon (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Celestial Horizon

Specialty definitions using "celestial horizon": astro altitudecelestial coordinateshorizon system of coordinatesnautical twilight. (references)

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Expression: Celestial Horizon

Expression using "celestial horizon": rational or celestial horizon. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Celestial Horizon

Language Translations for "celestial horizon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

истинный горизонт (rational horizon, true horizon). (various references)

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Anagrams: Celestial Horizon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: creolizations.

-4 letters: colonializes, creolization, heliolatries, iconolatries, lectionaries, neorealistic, orientalizes, rhizoctonias.

-5 letters: centralizes, chlorinates, cholesterol, citronellas, clothesline, coleorhizae, colonialist, colonialize, horizontals, interschool, lecithinase, literalizes, orientalize, oscillation, recolonizes, relocations, resocialize, rhizoctonia.

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