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Definition of Apogeal

1. a. Apogean.

Definition of Apogeal

1. Adjective. Connected with the apogee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apogeal

1. apogee [adj] - See also: apogee

Medical Definition of Apogeal

1. Apogean. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apogeal

Literary usage of Apogeal

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

1. Gravitation: An Elementary Explanation of the Principal Perturbations in the by George Biddell Airy (1884)
"... the latas rectum is equal to the sum of the reciprocals of the apogeal and ... reciprocal of the apogeal distance by a given quantity, and, therefore, ..."

2. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1806)
"The originals of these observations, and several others, are * This measure comes nearer to the calculated apogeal semi- diameter of the sun than the former ..."

3. The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1806)
".nil/: -ji'^ of * This measure comes nearer to the calculated apogeal semidiameter of the sun than the former ; but as, at the making of these observations, ..."

4. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"The elliptic inequality, or équation of the (•".'•• which would exist if it were not disturbed. apogeal distance i*va 1,'iven quantity, ami therefore alu-r* ..."

5. Treatise on Physics by Andrew Gray (1901)
"In the same way the apogeal distance is diminished. Thus the eccentricity is diminished. It appears, therefore, that there must be some period of revolution ..."

6. The Horological Journal: The Special Organ of the British Horological Institute by British Horological Federation, British Horological Institute (1860)
"... and her apogeal wire, to the beginning of that sign, and turn the plate A about, until the Earth's axis inclines toward any side of the room (suppose ..."

7. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1849)
"It is clear that the decision must be in favour of cY, the apogeal arc, and, since in this the force is outwards and the moon receding from the earth, ..."

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