ephemeris

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  1. noun A table giving the coordinates of a celestial body at a number of specific times during a given period.

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  • 'It's Raphael's astronomical ephemeris, Lovejoy,' she said. —  dummy 3
  • On every minute and half-minute, each satellite transmits its notion of the precise time and its health, followed by its location and a path in orbit that's valid for as long as four hours (the ephemeris, pluralized ephermerides). —  Ars Technica
  • Harmony is a program that plots an astronomical ephemeris into and renders its data to an AU-format soundfile, all based upon theories first presented in Johannes Kepler's famous —  Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community
  • Psychics Online Daily Horoscopes Astrologer Vedic Astrology Jyotish matrimonial ephemeris career monthly weekly yearly horoscope yoga Provides weekly and monthly horoscopes using astrology, numerology and Vedic astrology. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Follow up It is feasible to put such ephemeris data on the web so it can be loaded into mobile GPS devices. —  We Blog A Lot
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  1. Late Latin ephēmeris, from Greek, diary, from ephēmeros, daily; see ephemeral.

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  1. from Latin ephemeris, from Greek ἐφημερίς, a diary, journal, calendar, from ἐφήμερος, for the day, daily: see ephemerous, ephemera.
 

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