Crossword-Solution: ECLIPTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ecliptic | a. | A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun. |
| Ecliptic | a. | A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems. |
| Ecliptic | a. | Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way. |
| Ecliptic | a. | Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “ECLIPTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Apparent annual path of the sun | 1 answer |
| Apparent heavenly path of the sun's annual motion | 1 answer |
| Like a much-watched 8/21/2017 alignment | 1 answer |
| Like a solar event | 1 answer |
| Sun's apparent path | 1 answer |
| Sun's path on the celestial sphere | 1 answer |
| The plane of the earth's orbit around the sun | 1 answer |
| the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun | 1 answer |
| Apparent path of the sun | 2 answers |
| Zodiac | 33 answers |
| Latitude | 56 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEMEZA
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Sentences with ECLIPTIC (5)
Thus said, he turnd, and _Satan_ bowing low, As to superior Spirits is wont in Heaven, Where honour due and reverence none neglects, Took leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath, Down from th’ Ecliptic, sped with hop’d success, Throws his steep flight with many an Aerie wheele, Nor staid, till on _Niphates_ top he lights.
Mixing together sundry texts from Genesis and from the second epistle of Peter, the theological doctrine of the "Fall," an astronomical theory regarding the ecliptic, and various notions adapted from Descartes, he insisted that, before sin brought on the Deluge, the earth was of perfect mathematical form, smooth and beautiful, "like an egg," with neither seas nor islands nor valleys nor rocks, "with not a wrinkle, scar, or fracture," and that all creation was equally perfect.
But the Ecliptic (the other important great circle of the heavens) can only be thought of as a line traversing the constellations as they are seen at NIGHT.
The outer and the inner sphere cross one another and meet again at a point opposite to that of their first contact; the first moving in a circle from left to right along the side of a parallelogram which is supposed to be inscribed in it, the second also moving in a circle along the diagonal of the same parallelogram from right to left; or, in other words, the first describing the path of the equator, the second, the path of the ecliptic.
Then the wise men said: “Oh, pshaw! anyhow, the variation of the intersection of the equator and the ecliptic proves it.” We could not see this through our telescope, so we remained silent.
Quotes with ECLIPTIC (3)
Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a god that gave birth to Earth, this is only partially correct. Although Earth was originally created from the Sun (as part of the ecliptic plane of debris and dust that circulated around the Sun 4.5 billion years ago), our Sun is barely hot enough to fuse hydrogen to helium. This means that our true “mother” sun was actually an unnamed star or collection of stars that died billion…
Let us not, however, exaggerate our power. Whatever man does, the great lines of creation persist; the supreme mass does not depend on man. He has power over the detail, not over the whole. And it is right that this should be so. The Whole is providential. Its laws pass over our head. What we do goes no farther than the surface. Man clothes or unclothes the earth; clearing a forest is like taking off a garment. But to slow down the rotation of the globe on its axis, to accele…
The way we envision the stars is by imagining they're attached to a giant invisible sphere surrounding the earth. It is a total fiction, really - just a construction we came up with to help us get our heads around the complexity of it all ... The ecliptic, put simply is the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. But since we all live here on earth, we observe the sun to be moving along this plane instead. Why? Because what would be the point of looking at things from the …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1998–2020).