Definitions
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- n. The intersection of an orbiting object's orbital plane with the plane of reference
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. a straight line joining the two nodes of an orbit.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kepler therefore was obliged to recompute the parallax from the original observations, as also the position of the line of nodes and the inclination of the orbit.
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