meridian error

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• Meridian

  ·adj Midday; noon. II. Meridian ·adj Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian s...

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• meridian, of the earth

  Is an imaginary great circle passing through the zenith and the poles, and cutting the equator at ri...

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• error

  error, ōris, m. [1. erro], a wandering. I In gen., a wandering , straying or strolling about (...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• error

  error ōris, m cf. 1 erro, a wandering, straying, strolling : ad quos Ceres in illo errore venisse ...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Error

  ·noun A wandering; a roving or irregular course. II. Error ·noun The difference between an observed...

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• ante meridian

  Before noon. ...

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• azimuthal error

  See meridian error. ...

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• index-error

  The reading of the verniers of the above-named instruments. It is the correction to be applied to th...

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• level-error

  The microscopic deviation of the axis of a transit instrument from the horizontal position. ...

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• plane of the meridian

  See meridian. ...

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