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EPHEMERIS (ephemerides)
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Irregular inflected form: ephemerides
Dictionary entry overview: What does ephemeris mean?
• EPHEMERIS (noun)
The noun EPHEMERIS has 1 sense:
1. an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year
Familiarity information: EPHEMERIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
today computers calculate the ephemerides
Hypernyms ("ephemeris" is a kind of...):
annual; yearbook; yearly (a reference book that is published regularly once every year)
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