Crossword-Solution: APHELION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aphelion | n. | That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “APHELION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Farthest-from-the-sun orbital point | 1 answer |
| Orbital point farthest from the sun | 1 answer |
| Orbital extreme | 4 answers |
| Skyline? | 6 answers |
| horizon | 17 answers |
| distance | 59 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APHELION (5)
Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
Still," he adds, "during extreme excentricity the sun would make great efforts to compensate in perihelion for the chill of a long winter in aphelion in one hemisphere, and a cool summer in the other.
The point where it approaches nearest the sun is called _Perihelion,_ and the point where it reaches the greatest distance from the sun is called its _Aphelion._ It will be readily seen that the more elliptical its orbit becomes the greater will be the difference between the perihelion and aphelion distance of the sun.
Hence the immense benefit of party in politics, as it reveals faults of character in a chief, which the intellectual force of the persons, with ordinary opportunity and not hurled into aphelion by hatred, could not have seen.
They absolutely _hear_ the tellurian lungs wheezing, panting, crying, 'Bellows to mend!' periodically as the Earth approaches her aphelion.
Quotes with APHELION (1)
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2011–2019).