Definition of Antisolar

1. a. Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180° distant from the sun.

Definition of Antisolar

1. Adjective. (astronomy) opposite to the sun (from the Earth) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Antisolar

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antisolar

antisnobbery
antisnobs
antisocial behaviour order
antisocial behaviour orders
antisocial personality
antisocial personality disorder
antisocialism
antisocialist
antisocialists
antisociality
antisocially
antisoil
antisoiling
antisolar (current term)
antisoliton
antisolitons
antisoviet
antispace
antispaces
antispam
antispammer
antispammers
antispamming
antispanking
antispasmatic
antispasmatics
antispasmodic
antispasmodic agent

Literary usage of Antisolar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy Book of Meteorology by Alexander Buchan (1868)
"This neutral point is some distance above the point in the sky opposite to the sun, and which is called the antisolar point. The name of Arago's neutral ..."

2. Bulletin by Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, United States Weather Bureau (1913)
"sun well below the horizon there was practically no increase, and on July 27 observations on Arago's neutral point showed a decrease in the antisolar ..."

3. Physics of the Air by William Jackson Humphreys (1920)
"(3) Generally speaking, the percentage of polarized light along any great circle connecting the sun and the antisolar point increases from zero near either ..."

4. Bulletin by Mount Weather Observatory, Bluemont, Va, United States Weather Bureau (1912)
"The lowest, if it is above either the sun or the antisolar point; the highest, if it is below either of them. In this latter case, however, ..."

5. A Text-book of General Physics for the Use of Colleges and Scientfic Schools by Charles Sheldon Hastings, Frederick Elijah Beach (1899)
"From the preceding table it is seen that all raindrops upon which the sun shines at angular distance between 42° and 40° from the antisolar point, that is, ..."

6. Proceedings of the ... Convention of Weather Bureau Officials (1904)
"... the antisolar point, the other about the same distance above the sun, and called, respectively, .from their discoverers, the neutral points of Arago and ..."

7. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish academy (1883)
"But as the position of the anthelion thus formed would be at or near the antisolar point, it could only occur at a low altitude ; hence it would not explain ..."

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