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Definitions of ecliptic in various dictionaries:
noun - the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun
The intersection plane of the earth’s orbit with the celestial sphere, along which the sun appears to move as viewed from the earth.
A great circle inscribed on a terrestrial globe inclined at an approximate angle of 2327' to the equator and representing the apparent motion of the sun in relation to the earth during a year.
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| a great circle on the celestial sphere representing the sun's apparent path during the year, so called because lunar and solar eclipses can only occur when the moon crosses it. |
| the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator |
| The intersection plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere, along which the sun appears to move as viewed from the earth. |
| A great circle inscribed on a terrestrial globe inclined at an approximate angle of 2327 to the equator and representing the apparent motion of the sun in relation to the earth during a year. |
| A great circle on the celestial sphere representing the sun's apparent path during the year, so called because lunar and solar eclipses can only occur when the moon crosses it. |
| Of an eclipse or the ecliptic. |
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The ecliptic is the mean plane in the sky that the Sun follows over the course of a year; it is the basis of the ecliptic coordinate system. It is the plane of this path, which is coplanar with Earth's orbit around the Sun (and hence the Sun's apparent orbit around Earth). * The ecliptic is not normally noticeable from Earth's surface because Earth rotates, carrying the observer through the cycles of sunrise and sunset, which obscure the Sun's apparent motion against the background of fixed stars. |