Skip to main content

ephemeris

/ih-fem-er-is/US // ɪˈfɛm ər ɪs //UK // (ɪˈfɛmərɪs) //

星历表,星历,星表,年历

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural e·phe·mer·i·des [ef-uh-mer-i-deez]. /ˌɛf əˈmɛr ɪˌdiz/.

    • : a table showing the positions of a heavenly body on a number of dates in a regular sequence.
    • : an astronomical almanac containing such tables.
    • : Archaic. an almanac or calendar.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In the 1790s, he calculated ephemerides, predictions about the future positions of the sun, the moon, the planets and the stars over the course of the coming year.

  • Not surprisingly, with such traumatic lessons, scientists have sweated over getting the ephemerides of solar-system objects pinned down better and better.

  • Dictys (the full title of whose book is Ephemeris Belli Trojani) is not only the longer but the better written of the two.

  • For instance, under the entry newspaper occurs the attractive word ephemeris.

  • Knowing the location of Venus in the sky, which can be ascertained from the Ephemeris, the observer can find it by day.

  • Take in hand, then, the Ephemeris for the year of your birth and read this chapter with it in view.

  • Possibly the Latin Ephemeris was the work of Septimius himself.