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Definition of Fixed star
1. Noun. Any star in the Ptolemaic theory of planetary motion.
Definition of Fixed star
1. Noun. (star) Any star that is so distant that its movement, relative to others, is not perceptible; in practice, any star except the sun ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixed Star
Literary usage of Fixed star
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The position of a fixed star in the heavens varies at most one degree each day.
... fixed star could have so moved before the Magi as to lead them to ..."
2. A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy: Embracing the General by William Chauvenet (1900)
"OCCULTATION OF A fixed star BY A PLANET. 359. Very small stars disappear to the
eye when near the bright limb of a planet, before they are actually occulted ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of a fixed star is the maximum angle which a line equal to the earth's mean
distance from the sun would subtend ii viewed at the star. ..."
4. Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States and by John Pinkerton, Samuel Vince, Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"TRE SUV, OR A fixed star. 201. The steps by which we find the longitude by this
method, are these: 1. From the observed altitude* of tlie moon and the sun, ..."
5. Institutes of Natural Philosophy: Theoretical and Practical by William Enfield, Alexander Ewing (1811)
"The parallax of a fixed star, being not more than z% the sun when viewed from
... This being the case, the reason will appear, why a fixed star, ..."
6. The Works of President Edwards ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"1. from the foregoing: That our Sun is a fixed star, is as certain, as that any
one particular Star in the heavens is one. Coroll. 2. ..."
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