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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Astron.) the difference between mean and apparent time, or between the time of day indicated by the sun, and that by a perfect clock going uniformly all the year round.
  2. n. See under Equation, n.

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  • “Captain Doane worked hard, pursuing the sun in its daily course through the sky, by the equation of time correcting its aberrations due to the earth's swinging around the great circle of its orbit, and charting Sumner lines innumerable, working assumed latitudes for position until his head grew dizzy.”

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  1. time-equation
  1. relativity
  1. induction
  1. astronomical clock
  1. equation box
  1. analemma
  1. epoch
  1. light-vector

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