apparent noon

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• Noon

  ·noun Hence, the highest point; culmination. II. Noon ·vi To take rest and refreshment at noon. II...

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• noon

  Mid-day. ...

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• Apparent

  ·noun An heir apparent. II. Apparent ·adj Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; o...

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• apparent

  In appearance, as visible to the eye, or evident to the mind, which in the case of astronomical moti...

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• Noon-flower

  ·noun The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. ...

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• noon-flower

  n. a rare name for the Mesembryanthemum. See Pig-face. 1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 19, p. 4, col. 2: ...

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• noon-scape

  the time when labourers rest after dinner. Lane. ...

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• mean noon

  The noon of a mean day supposing the year to be divided into days of equal length. It differs from a...

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• apparent equinox

  The position of the equinox as affected by nutation. ...

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• apparent horizon

  See horizon. ...

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• apparent motion

  The motion of celestial bodies as viewed from the earth. ...

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• apparent obliquity

  The obliquity of the ecliptic affected with nutation. ...

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• apparent time

  The time resulting from an observation of the sun an expression per contractionem for apparent solar...

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• diameter, apparent

  The angle which the diameter of a heavenly body subtends at any time, varying inversely with its dis...

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• Sleep-at-noon

  ·noun A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. ...

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• Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon

  (1795-1854) Poet and biographer, s. of a brewer at Reading, where he was b., and which he represent...

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• apparent place of a star

  This is the position for any day which it seems to occupy in the heavens, as affected with aberratio...

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