Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation east-northeast
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete contraction of even.
- noun An adjective termination of Latin origin, as in serene, terrene.
- noun In chem., a termination indicating a hydrocarbon which belongs to the olefine series, having the general formula CnH2n: as, ethylene (C2H4), propylene (C3H6).
- noun An obsolete contraction of even.
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- abbreviation
east-northeast
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the compass point midway between northeast and east
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Examples
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Mars rises in the ENE at midnight and is nearing the high meridian as the morning twilight floods our sky.
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Venus, brilliant at mag -3.9 but soon to be lost in the Sun's glare, rises in the ENE about 55 minutes before the Sun on the 1st and stands 6° high at sunrise.
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Binoculars may show Mercury very low in the ENE twilight as the month ends as it begins a favourable spell as a morning star.
The August night sky 2011
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Jupiter rises below Aries in the ENE some 30 minutes after our map times and outshines every star at mag -2.2 to -2.4 as it climbs to stand well up in the E to SE before dawn.
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Jupiter rises below Aries in the ENE some 30 minutes after our map times and outshines every star at mag -2.2 to -2.4 as it climbs to stand well up in the E to SE before dawn.
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At mag -2.8 to -2.9 and edging westwards in Aries, it rises in the ENE as the night begins and is highest at some 50° in the S four hours after our map times.
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Our nights belong to the conspicuous planet Jupiter which rises in the ENE some 80 minutes before our map times and climbs high into the S by dawn.
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Indeed, Jupiter is unmistakable from the moment it rises in the ENE at 01:00 BST tomorrow and by midnight on the 27th.
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Venus, brilliant at mag -3.9 but soon to be lost in the Sun's glare, rises in the ENE about 55 minutes before the Sun on the 1st and stands 6° high at sunrise.
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I searched on a ENE direction and found my bearings.
The Ridgeline: Day 1 Thomas Shagy 2010
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