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anomalistic, a.|əˌnɒməˈlɪstɪk| [mod. f. as prec. + -istic. Cf. mod.L. anōmalistic-us, and Fr. anomalistique perh. earlier.] Connected with or pertaining to an anomaly. 1. Astr. Pertaining to the anomaly or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. anomalistic year: the time occupied by the earth (or other planet), in passing from perihelion to perihelion, or from any given value of the angular element called anomaly to the same again, which, owing to the slow eastward motion of the apsidal points of the orbit, is longer than a tropical or sidereal year, containing 365 d. 6 h. 13′ 49·3{pp}. anomalistic month: the time similarly occupied by the moon in passing from perigee to perigee, etc.
1767Horsley in Phil. Trans. LVII. 179 The duplicate proportion of the periodic month to the anomalistic month. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Phil. IV. xlv. 244 The anomalistic period of Saturn is increasing, at present, about a day in a century. 1833J. Narrien Hist. Astron. 261 Her [the moon's] mean anomalistic velocity. 1874Moseley Astron. xxx. (ed. 4) 116 The time intervening between two successive passages of the earth through an aphelion or perihelion, of its orbit, is called an Anomalistic Year. 2. Of or pertaining to a (linguistic) anomalist.
1882Trans. Vict. Inst. 321 The Conventional (Anomalistic) and Connexional (Analogistic) Theories of Language. |