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adjective
Ecliptic  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.
2.
Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.
Lunar ecliptic limit (Astron.), the space of 12° on the moon's orbit from the node, within which, if the moon happens to be at full, it will be eclipsed.
Solar ecliptic limit, the space of 17° from the lunar node, within which, if a conjunction of the sun and moon occur, the sun will be eclipsed.





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"Ecliptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... constellations which are still called the Signs of the Zodiac. In time even these observations were excelled, and it now appears certain that the Chaldaeans recognized the annual displacement of the equinoctial point upon the ecliptic, a discovery that is generally attributed to the Greek astronomers. But, like Hipparchus, they made faults of calculation in consequence of the defects of ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
... very well that a new astronomy was predicted in the build of that sky-confronting mind; for harmonic ratios, laws, and rhymes played in his spheral soul, galaxies and gravitations stretched deeper within, and systems climbed their flaming ecliptic. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various


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