Crossword-Solution: EVECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Evection | - | The act of carrying up or away; exaltation. |
| Evection | - | An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1¡ 20'. |
| Evection | - | The libration of the moon. |
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| EVECTION | anagram | CIVETONE |
We have 2 clues for the answer “EVECTION”
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| irregularity in the moon's motion caused by perturbations of the sun and planets | 1 answer |
| Inequality | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with EVECTION (5)
Moreover, such observations as the precession of the equinoxes and the moon's evection are as yet unexplained, and measurements of the earth's size, and of the sun's size and distance, are so crude and imperfect as to be in one case only an approximation, and in the other an absurdly inadequate suggestion.
His life was short, but he accomplished a great deal, and rightly ascribed the lunar inequality called _evection_ to variations in the value of the eccentricity and in the direction of the line of apses, at the same time correctly assigning _the disturbing force of the Sun_ as the cause.
His chief discovery was an irregularity of the lunar motion, called the '_evection_.' He was also the first to observe the effect of the refraction of light in causing the apparent displacement of a heavenly body from its true position.
The Evection, an irregular motion of the Moon discovered by Ptolemy, whereby her mean longitude is increased or diminished, was explained by Horrox as depending upon the libratory motion of the apsides, and the change which takes place in the eccentricity of the lunar orbit.
The most important of these is the _annual equation_, discovered by Tycho Brahé--a yearly effect produced by the Sun's disturbing influence as the Earth approaches or recedes from him in her orbit; another irregularity, called the _evection_, is a change in the eccentricity of the lunar orbit, by which the mean longitude of the Moon is increased or diminished.