mean motion

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• Mean

  ·noun Meantime; meanwhile. II. Mean ·noun A mediator; a go-between. III. Mean ·vi To have a purpos...

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• mean

  for means. Many American writers, following the Scottish models, make use of mean instead of means. ...

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• mean

  As a general term implies the medium, but a mean of bad observations can never make a good one. ...

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• Motion

  ·noun A puppet show or puppet. II. Motion ·noun Power of, or capacity for, motion. III. Motion ·vi...

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• to motion

  To move; to make a motion; as, 'I motion that the resolution pass.' An old English word rarely used,...

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• motion

  Change of place; it is termed direct, in the sky, when it is in the direction of the earth's annual ...

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• Mean-spirited

  ·adj Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. ...

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• mean anomaly

  See anomaly. ...

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• mean distance

  The average distance of a planet from the sun; it is equal to half the longer axis of the ellipse, a...

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• mean equinox

  The position of the equinox independent of the effects of nutation. ...

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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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• mean obliquity

  The obliquity of the ecliptic, unaffected with nutation. ...

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• mean sun

  See time, mean. ...

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• mean time

  See time, mean. ...

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• time, mean

  , or mean solar time. That shown by a clock or watch when compensated for the unequal progress of ...

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• Electro-motion

  ·noun The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mecha...

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• Excito-motion

  ·noun Motion excited by reflex nerves. ·see Excito-motory. ...

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• Ideo-motion

  ·noun An ideo-motor movement. ...

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• Link motion

  ·- A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an ...

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• Motion picture

  ·add. ·- A moving picture. ...

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• Self-motion

  ·noun Motion given by inherent power, without external impulse; spontaneus or voluntary motion. ...

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• angular motion

  is that which describes an angle, or moves circularly round a point, as planets revolving about the ...

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• apparent motion

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

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• direct motion

  See motion. ...

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• horary motion

  The march or movement of any heavenly body in the space of an hour. ...

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• natural motion

  A term applied to the descending parabolic curve of a shot or shell in falling. ...

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• retrograde motion

  See motion. ...

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• tropical motion

  See motion. ...

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• centre of motion

  See motion (centre of). ...

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• motion, centre of

  That point of a body which remains at rest whilst all the other parts are in motion about it: as the...

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• mean place of a star

  Its position at a given time, independent of aberration and nutation. ...

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• proper motion of the stars

  A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...

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• radius-bar of parallel motion

  An intervening lever for guiding the side-rods of a steam-engine. ...

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