About  |  Kamus SABDA Mobile
Table of Contents -- Almucantar
POS
HYPHEN
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Link, Gadget and Share
Copy the code below to your site:
Link
Gadget
Share
 Facebook
 Twitter
Add to your browser

Almucantar

POS
 : 
Noun
HYPHEN
 : 
al=mu=can=tar
top

CIDE DICTIONARY
Almucantar, n. [F. almucantarat, almicantarat, ultimately fr. Ar. al-muqantarāt, pl., fr. qantara to bend, arch.].
     A small circle of the sphere parallel to the horizon; a circle or parallel of altitude. Two stars which have the same almucantar have the same altitude. See Almacantar.  [1913 Webster]
Almucanter staff, an ancient instrument, having an arc of fifteen degrees, formerly used at sea to take observations of the sun's amplitude at the time of its rising or setting, to find the variation of the compass.
top

OXFORD DICTIONARY
Almucantar, n. (also almacantar) Astron. a line of constant altitude above the horizon.

Etymology
ME f. med.L almucantarath or F almucantara etc., f. Arab. almukantarat sundial f. kantara arch
copyright © 2012 Yayasan Lembaga SABDA (YLSA) | To report a problem/suggestion