diurnal aberration

English

Noun

diurnal aberration (plural diurnal aberrations)

(astronomy) A deviation due to the earth's axial rotation.

Translations

deviation

Dutch: dagelijkse afwijking m
Irish: iomrall laethúil m

References

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “diurnal aberration”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

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