Crossword-Solution: SEMIDIAMETER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Semidiameter | n. | Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius. |
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| the apparent radius of a celestial body when viewed as a disc from the earth | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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NEVIDI
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"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SEMIDIAMETER (5)
The parts, D and F, will be likewise elevated to H and K, whose refraction, by reason of its inclination, will be bigger then that of the point C, though less then that of E; therefore will the semidiameter IL, be shorter then LG, and consequently the under side of the appearing Sun more flat then the upper.
Square then, halfe the Subtendent of that watry Superficies (which Subtendent must haue the equall partes of his measure, all one, with those of the Semidiameter of the earth to your watry Superficies): Subtracte this square, from the first: Of the residue, take the Rote Square.
That Rote, Subtracte from your first Semidiameter of the earth to your watry Superficies: that, which remaineth, is the heith of the water, in the middle, aboue the leuell.” Which, you will finde, to be a thing insensible.
For though so small a removal of the Earth, as the _Epicycle_ would cause (especially if its _Semidiameter_ should not be above 1-1/3 of the Earths Semidiameter) would scarce be sensible (if at all) to the remoter Planets; yet as to the nearer it might.
For the Semidiameter of this Epicycle, being little more than the Semidiameter of the Earth it self, or about 1-1/3 thereof (as is conjectured, in the _Hypothesis_, from the Magnitudes and Distances of the Earth and Moon compared;) and there having not as yet been observed any discernable _Parallax_ of _Mars_, even in his neerest position to the Earth; it is very suspicious, that here it may prove so too.