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Azimuth

noun
1.
The azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian.  Synonym: AZ.



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"Azimuth" Quotes from Famous Books



... the crest of the ridge that separated the two valleys, Mallory took an azimuth on the towers of Carbonek, encephalo-fed the direction to Easy Money, and programmed the "animal" to proceed in as straight ...
— A Knyght Ther Was • Robert F. Young

... data which he had derived from the study of the photograph as from plumb line, level, compass, and tape, astronomical triangle, vertices, zenith, pole, and sun, declination, azimuth, solar time, parallactic angles, refraction, and ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve

... placing the board so that the compass reads North it will be oriented correctly. Care must be used when near electric wires or masses of metal as automobiles, railroad tracks, etc., which will attract the needle from its true azimuth (N. and S. direction) and thus throw off the whole map. In such cases it is far better to back sight and use the compass only at intervals to verify ...
— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker

... point in order to obtain a better view of our surroundings. At a point two thousand four hundred feet above sea-level and three hundred and fifteen and three-quarter miles eastward from the Hut, a complete observation for position and magnetic azimuth was taken. ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson



Words linked to "Azimuth" :   azimuthal, AZ, angle



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