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Ephemeris

noun
(pl. ephemerides)
1.
An annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year.



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"Ephemeris" Quotes from Famous Books



... safe to move on the 23rd, and there being a lunar eclipse announced in the ephemeris to take place in the following night, I landed to observe it with the telescope of the sextant. The times at which the beginning and end happened by the watch, being corrected from altitudes of the stars Rigel and Sirius ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders
... heavenly bodies, which we compute backward to the days of the observatories on the plains of Shinar, and on the faith of which we regulate the movements of war and trade by the predictions of our ephemeris. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


Words linked to "Ephemeris" :   yearbook, ephemeris time, yearly, annual


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