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Definition of Ephemeris

1. Noun. An annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year. "Today computers calculate the ephemerides"

Definition of Ephemeris

1. n. A diary; a journal.

Definition of Ephemeris

1. Noun. (context: obsolete singular or plural) A journal or diary. ¹

2. Noun. (context: astronomy) A table giving the apparent position of celestial bodies throughout the year; normally given as right ascension and declination ¹

3. Noun. Software that calculates the apparent position of celestial bodies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ephemeris

1. [n -ERIDES]

Medical Definition of Ephemeris

1. Origin: L, a diary, Gr, also, a calendar, fr. See Ephemera. 1. A diary; a journal. 2. A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac." Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days. 3. A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Ephemeris

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

1. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1900)
"Peirce's method of correcting the ephemeris. ... But if instead of an actual observation at Z/j we had a perfect ephemeris, or e2=0, the probable error of ..."

2. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1896)
"I have computed the following ephemeris from the elements given by Professor CAMPBELL, in No. 45 of these Publications, age 344- ephemeris FOR GREENWICH ..."

3. Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by Alexander Jones (1999)
"ephemeris 2 lB.100/K(c) 5x6 cm This is a piece from the bottom of an ephemeris, including a 4 cm bottom margin. The ruling is red, and the back blank. ..."

4. Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of by Jeremiah Joyce, Olinthus Gregory, Charles Vincent Walker (1846)
"Of the ephemeris. C. Your second method of tracing the ecliptic was by means of the position of the planets : will you explain that now ? T. I will; and, ..."

5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1866)
"The following ephemeris for the opposition oí Iris has been calculated by me from my Tables. In constructing these, the perturbations of the first order ..."

6. The U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, During by James Melville Gilliss (1856)
"OBSERVATIONS COMPARED WITH ephemeris. The next step to be taken is the computation of the tabular places for the moment of observation, and the comparison ..."

7. Determination of the Solar Parallax from Photographs of Eros Made with the by Charles Dillon Perrine, Harold King Palmer, Fredrica C. Moore, Adelaide M. Hobe (1910)
"To render the observations and ephemeris homogeneous, the reductions to Newcomb's ... CORRECTIONS TO THE ephemeris OF EROS. The deviations of Eros from the ..."

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