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Definition of Anthelion
1. n. A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.
Definition of Anthelion
1. Noun. A faint, white halo rarely seen in the sky opposite the sun on the parhelic circle ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anthelion
1. a halolike area seen in the sky opposite the sun [n -LIA or -LIONS]
Medical Definition of Anthelion
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Origin: Pref. Anti + Gr. Sun.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthelion
Literary usage of Anthelion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1762)
"An Account of an anthelion ... which I take to have been an anthelion, appeared.
This was not however completely formed, that part of its ..."
2. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"anthelion. — An image of the sun directly opposite, or 180 degrees distant from
the sun, is sometimes called a " parhelion," but is more properly known as ..."
3. A Treatise on Geometrical Optics by Robert Samuel Heath (1887)
"The anthelion is a bright patch of white light with an ill-defined edge, often
exceeding the apparent diameter of the sun, situated on the parhelic circle ..."
4. Annals of Philosophy, Or, Magazine of Chemistry, Mineralogy, Mechanics by Thomas Thomson (1817)
"... had satisfied myself of the fact, it was obliterated new protuberance in the
cloud destroying the direct reflection, anthelion observed by Swinton near ..."
5. Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping by Herbert B. Mason (1908)
"Coloured rings seen round the shadow of an observer, projected on to a cloud or
fog lying below him ; also called " anthelion." Glory. ..."
6. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"Light refracted in and, after internal reflections, back out by the same vertical
side also adds to the anthelion. Oblique Arcs of the anthelion. ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1883)
"Thus it appears that no halo or anthelion can be caused ... An anthelion not
differing much from the assigned position would be produced by two refractions ..."
8. Popular Science Monthly (1912)
"The word " anthelion " has, indeed, been used persistently in this sense in
English literature; though such a use has never been countenanced in French or ..."
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