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paran

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A latitude where, at some longitude at a given moment in time, two celestial bodies (or mathematical points, or any such bodies'/points' projections onto the ecliptic) were simultaneously one on the horizon and the other at its highest in the sky (culminating) or lowest below the horizon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: astrocartography, astronomy, cartography, geography, natural-sciences, uranography

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Etymology

Short for paranatellonta, from Greek παρανατέλλοντα

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