paran

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A latitude where, at some longitude at a given moment in time, two celestial bodies (or mathematical points, or any such bodies'/points' projections onto the ecliptic) were simultaneously one on the horizon and the other at its highest in the sky (culminating) or lowest below the horizon.

Word forms

paran parans

Etymology

Short for paranatellonta, from Greek παρανατέλλοντα

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