Ephemeris

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A diary; a journal.

II. Ephemeris ·noun A collective name for reviews, magazines, and all kinds of periodical literature.

III. Ephemeris ·noun Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days.

IV. Ephemeris ·noun A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.".

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