Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A non-plane curve, the locus of the point of contact with an ellipsoid of a plane tangent at once to that surface and to a concentric sphere.
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This breaks the spherical symmetry, and causes a polhode motion.
Dragging on daniel 2007
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