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EPHEMERIS
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: ephemerides
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year
Example:
today computers calculate the ephemerides
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ephemeris" is a kind of...):
annual; yearbook; yearly (a reference book that is published regularly once every year)