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Example sentences for "celestial body"

  • To take an astronomical observation, so to ascertain the position of a celestial body as to learn from it the place of the ship.

  • The accurate touch of the edge of a celestial body to the horizon.

  • A celestial body is said to be in opposition to the sun when their longitudes differ 180°, or half the circumference of the heavens.

  • The circular figure of a celestial body, as seen projected of the heavens.

  • There is no time; because time is the number of motion, and there can be no motion without some natural body; but there cannot exist any extra-celestial body.

  • There is, however, a way in which the light of a celestial body may be obscured without the necessity of its being hidden from us by one nearer.

  • The zenith distance of any point or celestial body is its angular distance from the zenith of the observer.

  • The true altitude of a celestial body is its angular height from the true horizon.

  • In the celestial sphere, the way to find the location of a point or celestial body such as the sun is to find its declination (i.

  • By hour angle, I mean the distance in time from your meridian to the meridian of the point or celestial body in question.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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