1) Airline of Russia 2) Angle 3) Arc of the horizon 4) Astrolabe reading 5) British jazz ensemble 6) French word used in English 7) Heavenly measurement 8) Horizon arc measurement 9) Surveying angle
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1) Arc 2) Az
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is an angular measurement of an object's orientation along the horizon of the observer, relative to the direction of true north. When combined with the altitude above the horizon, it defines an object's current position in the spherical coordinate system.
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The angle that the meridian and the vertical circle through a celestial body make with the zenith, measured as an arc on the horizon.
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arc of the horizon
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is the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon.
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• (n.) An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying. • (n.) The quadrant of an azimuth circle.
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A surveying term that references the angle measured clockwise from any meridian
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The angular position of an object measured in the observer's horizontal plane, usually from north through east. Bearing or direction in the horizontal plane. As one of the coordinates expressing celestial location, it is sometimes used in tracking spacecraft.
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(from the article `altitude and azimuth`) in astronomy, gunnery, navigation, and other fields, two coordinates describing the position of an object above the Earth. Altitude in this sense is ... ...sight, which could be revolved in any direction and which was graduated in degrees relative to the axis of the gun bore. The gun`s position...
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A surveying term that references the angle measured clockwise from any meridian (the established line of reference). The bearing is used to designate direction. The bearing of a line is the acute horizontal angle between the meridian and the line.
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The angular distance to the foot of the vertical circle through a celestial body, measured from north around the observer`s horizon. Azimuth is 0° for an object due north, 90° due east, 180° due south, and 270° due west. It is specified together with altitude or, occasionally, zenith...
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<radiobiology> An angle measured clockwise relative to some reference point on a circle (for example, south or north). ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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The angle between the surface of an audio tape and the tape heads.
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Az'i·muth noun [ Middle English
azimut , French
azimut , from Arabic
as-sum...t , plural of
as-samt a way, or perhaps , a point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith,
as being the Arabic article: confer Italian
azzimutto , Portuguese
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A system that measures direction clockwise from North over 360°.
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A surveying term that references the angle measured clockwise from any meridian (the established line of reference). The bearing is used to designate direction. The bearing of a line is the acute horizontal angle between the meridian and the line.
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The angular distance of an object around or parallel to the horizon from a predefined zero point.
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The angle between true north and the projection of a surface normal to the horizontal plane, measured clockwise from the north. As applied to a Photovoltaic array, 180 degrees azimuth means the array faces south.
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AZ noun the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian
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The angular distance between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun.
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In astronomy, angular distance of an object eastwards along the horizon, measured from due north, between the astronomical meridian (the vertical circle passing through the centre of the sky and the north and south points on the horizon) and the vertical circle containing the celestial body whose position is to be measured
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(Solar) The angle between true south and the point on the horizon directly below the sun.
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[Difficult words] the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian
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[Obscure words] the azimuth of a celestial body is the angle between the vertical plane containing it and the plane of the meridian
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