Look up: obliquity

1. obliquity
   The angle between a body's equatorial plane and orbital plane.
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2. obliquity
   The angle between a body's equatorial plane and orbital plane.
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3. Obliquity
   Ob·liq'ui·ty noun ; plural Obliquities . [ Latin obliquitas : confer French obliquité .] 1. The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of...
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4. obliquity
   Synonym for asynclitism ... Absence of synclitism or parallelism between the axis of the presenting part of the child and the pelvic planes in childbirth. ... Synonym: obliquity. ... Origin: G. A-priv. + syn-klino, to incline together ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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5. obliquity
   (o-blik´wĭ-te) the state of being oblique or slanting, such as a fetus in utero.
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6. Obliquity
   • (n.) 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. • (n.) Deviation from ordinary rules; irregularity; deviation from moral rectitude.
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7. obliquity
   (from the article `Pleistocene Epoch`) ...three orbital parameters that have cyclic frequencies: (1) the eccentricity of the Earth`s orbit (i.e., its departure from a circular orbit), with ...
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8. Obliquity
   Tilt of the Earth's polar axis as measured from the perpendicular to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The angle of this tilt varies from 22.5 to 24.5° over a 41,000 year period. Current obliquity is 23.5°.
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9. obliquity
   Type: Term Pronunciation: ob-lik′wi-tē Synonyms: asynclitism
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10. Obliquity
    (book) `Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly` is a book by economist John Kay. It was inspired by an observation of the successful pharmaceutical researcher, publisher=Financial Times|date=March 23 2010-->--> The theme of the book is that businesses and other enterprises are ...
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