Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or ascertained or made by means of the heliometer; also, relating to measurements of the sun.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the heliometer, or to heliometry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the
heliometer , or toheliometry .
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Examples
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I shall be very glad to see, in a detailed form, a plan for making the proper measures by heliometric or photographic apparatus; and should take great interest in combining these with the eye-observations, if my selected stations can be made available.
Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896
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