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Definition of Colure
1. n. One of two great circles intersecting at right angles in the poles of the equator. One of them passes through the equinoctial points, and hence is denominated the equinoctial colure; the other intersects the equator at the distance of 90° from the former, and is called the solstitial colure.
Definition of Colure
1. Noun. (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians), that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Colure
1. an astronomical circle [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colure
Literary usage of Colure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Geographical Science: Mathematical, Physical, Historical, and by Matthew O'Brien, David Thomas Ansted, Julian R. Jackson, William Latham Bevan (1852)
"The Winter colure—by the Dragon's Head. The Sun's distance from the Pole is, ...
The Winter colure, about 1Щ°. Saving dwelt at some length on the ..."
2. The Globes, Celestial and Terrestrial by Augustus De Morgan (1845)
"The hour- circle which passes through the two equinoxes is called the equinoctial
colure; and that which passes through the poles of the ecliptic and the ..."
3. The Philosophical Transactions and Collections, to the End of the Year 1700 by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, John Eames, John Martyn (1734)
"Next let us inquire when the Star in the Middle of the Back of Aries (v Bayero )
paft the colure. Its Longitude Anno 1690 ..."
4. Uranography: Or, A Description of the Heavens; Designed for Academics and by Ezra Otis Kendall (1845)
"The Equinoctial colure is the declination circle passing through the equinoxes.
The Right Ascension of a heavenly body is the arc of the equator reckoned ..."
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