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Definition of Circumpolar
1. Adjective. (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel. "A circumpolar star"
2. Adjective. Located or found throughout a polar region.
Definition of Circumpolar
1. a. About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.
Definition of Circumpolar
1. Adjective. Located or found throughout a polar region. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: astronomy) Of a celestial body, continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Circumpolar
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumpolar
Literary usage of Circumpolar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Probability of Sea Level Rise by James G. Titus, Vijay K. Narayanan (1998)
"Southern Hemisphere circumpolar Ocean Warming. The draft expresses the equilibrium
change in circumpolar ocean temperatures as P3 times the average ..."
2. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1874)
"The instrument being brought near the vertical of a circumpolar star: 1st, ...
If, however, the circumpolar star has passed all the threads by the time the ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"(2) Spitzbergen Archipelago, with 50, of which 25 breed, while 18 of the 50 are
circumpolar. (3) Franz Joseph Land, 28, 16, and possibly 18, of which breed, ..."
4. An Introduction to Practical Astronomy: With a Collection of Astronomical Tables by Elias Loomis (1860)
"By transits of a circumpolar star both above and below the pole. The best method
of determining the latitude of a place, so as to be independent of the ..."
5. The Maturation of the Egg of the Mouse by Joseph Abraham Long, Edward Laurens Mark (1911)
"demonstrating the fibers and circumpolar bodies clearly. As a rule, the individual
fibers and their attachment to the chromosomes are not easily ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"His catalogue of 6317 circumpolar stars was in the printers' hands when he died.
It was published in 1860 under the editorship of Mr. Main, and has proved ..."
7. Elementary Meteorology by William Morris Davis (1894)
"Origin of extra-tropical cyclones as eddies in the circumpolar winds of the
terrestrial circulation. The only cause of this kind that has yet been ..."
8. Treatise on the Principal Mathematical Instruments Employed in Surveying by Frederick Walter Simms (1834)
"A third method, which admits of great accuracy, when instruments of large dimensions
are employed, consists in bisecting a circumpolar star when at its ..."
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