TRUE ANOMALY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does true anomaly mean? 

• TRUE ANOMALY (noun)
  The noun TRUE ANOMALY has 1 sense:

1. the angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis measured in degrees

  Familiarity information: TRUE ANOMALY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRUE ANOMALY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis measured in degrees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("true anomaly" is a kind of...):

angular distance (the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer)