Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dealing with or pertaining to astrography, or the charting of the stars. At present this charting is done mainly by means of photography.

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  • adjective astrometric

Etymologies

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astro- + -graphic

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Examples

  • Mr Madan was so impressed with the name Pluto, he went straight to his friend Herbert Hall Turner, professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford, and one of the leaders in the worldwide effort to produce an astrographic chart.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • The problem appeared to be the coelostat, a mirror attached to the large astrographic telescope.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • The problem appeared to be the coelostat, a mirror attached to the large astrographic telescope.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • The problem appeared to be the coelostat, a mirror attached to the large astrographic telescope.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

  • But there were incongruous modern touches, a microprint reader and many bookrolls from the Empire, astrographic tables and computer, a vodograph.

    Agent Of The Terran Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1965

  • The astrographic plates are being measured with two new Repsold machines, which are placed in a neighbouring convent, in charge of three

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • After the material restoration of the observatory, the main problems were a library and the measuring of the astrographic plates.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • The fortification wall, a thousand years old, which extends about 400 metres, is now crowned with four rotary domes, covering the astrographic refractor in the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • From the point of view of instruments of precision, one of the most important new features is the astrographic equatoreal, set up in 1892 and used for the Greenwich section of the great astrographic chart just completed.

    History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892

  • If the sun had been shining at Príncipe, there might not have been reliable astrographic results from which to assess Einstein’s theory.

    Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007

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