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Definition of Radiants
1. radiant [n] - See also: radiant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Radiants
Literary usage of Radiants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The radiants in Perseus at 47° + 45° and 36° + 47° are too far removed from any
previously known centres to be included with them. They were very swift, ..."
2. Geometrical Analysis, and Geometry of Curve Lines: Being Volume Second of a by John Leslie (1821)
"Suppose the radiants of the pole A (fig. 199.) to be reckoned from X to Y, and
those of B from X to Z. For the Convergent Curve, the intersection of the ..."
3. Astronomy and Astro-physics by European Southern Observatory, Goodsell Observatory (1886)
"THE RELATION BETWEEN METEORIC ORBITS AND radiants. For the Messenger. SJ CORRIGAN.
In the February number of the MESSENGER, I set forth a method of ..."
4. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1879)
"Meteor radiants active in May. No periodical showers of special intensity are
due in May, but there are many radiants of some ..."
5. Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society by British Meteorological Society (1865)
"An examination of the foregoing list of radiants of meteor-showers, based upon
results obtained by the analysis of an immense number of observations of ..."
6. The Observatory (1886)
"displays ; the mean centre from 14 radiants in July and'August is at 270--7 +48°.
... Amongst these I may instance radiants at 6° +37°, 30° +36°, 48° +43°, ..."
7. Memoirs of the British Astronomical Association by British Astronomical Association (1893)
"Two representing the swift class of meteor radiants, and two those moving slowly.
They are marked A, B, C, D, respectively, and those tracks marked with ..."
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