semidiameter
IPA: sɛmidaɪˈæmʌtɝ
noun
- (astronomy) The apparent radius of a star etc, when viewed from Earth.
- (archaic) A radius: half of a diameter.
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Examples of "semidiameter" in Sentences
- Each semicircular niche was about a foot in its semidiameter.
- Sun's semidiameter as observed from Earth's surface is around 16.3'.
- Additionally the observed altitudes are cleared of dip and semidiameter.
- Thus let be the horizontal parallel, and p the apparent semidiameter — —”
- As the semidiameter was only 28 inches, this large tree could have been but 168 years old.
- On the same day, at Des Moines, Newcomb could perceive, through somewhat hazy air, no long rays, and the four-pointed outline of the corona reached at its farthest only a _single semidiameter_ of the moon from the limb.
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- The parts, D and F, will be likewise elevated to H and K, whose refraction, by reason of its inclination, will be bigger then that of the point C, though less then that of E; therefore will the semidiameter IL, be shorter then LG, and consequently the under side of the appearing Sun more flat then the upper.
- Each of the laminae can be seen to be composed of two, three, or four layers of ligneous tubes; but supposing each ring the growth of one year, and the semidiameter of a mowana of one hundred feet in circumference about seventeen feet, if the central point were in the centre of the tree, then its age would lack some centuries of being as old as the
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