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Definition of Parallaxes
1. parallax [n] - See also: parallax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parallaxes
Literary usage of Parallaxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1920)
"I have given in the following pages the data of observation, the data of reduction
and the reductions necessary to determine the parallaxes of fifty stars. ..."
2. Determinations of Stellar Parallax by Henry Norris Russell (1911)
"The negative parallaxes are in each case just one-fifth of the whole number.
If an equal number of the smaller positive results are assumed to be illusory, ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Hankers M 92:749-5« Je '1C Mitchell, Samuel Alfred parallaxes of Procyon and ...
Pop Astron 25:38-45 Ja '17 —and others Stellar parallaxes determined ..."
4. Lessons in Astronomy, Including Uranography: A Brief Introductory Course by Charles Augustus Young (1903)
"... list having parallaxes exceeding 0".14. There are about as many more on his
list with parallaxes ranging between O'.IO and OM4. ..."
5. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1906)
"The parallaxes of the Stars. —Since the earth revolves around the sun the ...
The stars are all so very remote that their parallaxes so far as known are ..."
6. Spherical Astronomy by Franz Brünnow (1865)
"Therefore in order to obtain the horizontal parallaxes of those bodies, it is
only necessary to know the horizontal parallax of the sun or of one of these ..."
7. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe by Alexander von Humboldt (1868)
"The immediate connection subsisting between our still imperfect knowledge of
parallaxes, and our knowledge o'- * Oil the proportion of the amount of proper ..."
8. The Stars: A Study of the Universe by Simon Newcomb (1906)
"... parallaxes and the statistical summary given by Dr. Chase as the result of
his survey and quoted in our chapter on the parallaxes of the stars. ..."
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