Obliquity

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.

II. Obliquity ·noun The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

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  • apparent obliquity

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

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  • mean obliquity

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

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  • diminution of obliquity

    A slow approximation of the planes of the ecliptic and the equator, at the present rate of 0·485″ an...

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  • obliquity of the ecliptic

    The angle between the planes of the ecliptic and the equator, or the inclination of the earth's equa...

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