solstitial
Adjective
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Adjective
solstitial (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a solstice.
- a solstitial point
- 1903, John Jones, A kinetic universe, page 51:
- […] Fig. 2 is taken as being in the solstitial meridian plane N W S E, with the node D in front at the centre of the figure, and the node V behind the figure, D C V being the nodal diameter of the Earth, and W C E a solstitial diameter rectangular to D C V.
- 2000, Peter Lancaster Brown, Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology, page 214:
- Gaillard had tried to show that the avenues had a solstitial orientation.
- Occurring on a solstice.
- 1827, in The Correspondent, volume 1 ↗, page 182:
- […] the moment of his birth, the solstitial moon is to be full, […]
- 1827, in The Correspondent, volume 1 ↗, page 182:
- French: solsticial
- German: Sonnenwend-, Sonnwend-
- German: Sonnenwend-, Sonnwend-
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