单词 | almucantar |
释义 | almucantar /al"myooh kan'teuhr/, n. Astron. a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to the horizon; the locus of all points of a given altitude. Also called parallel of altitude. [1350-1400; prob. < ML almucantarath < Ar al-muqantarat the almucantars, equiv. to al the + muquantarat sundial, deriv. of qantarah arch; r. almicanter, ME almicanteras (pl.) < MF almicantarath < ML] |
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