Low-sun
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to the sun being low in the sky, such as in winter or near sunset or sunrise.
"These precautions being taken, there was no difficulty in recognizing, first, during frosty weather, when meteorologists know there is a minimum of moisture in the air, what should be the normal appearance of dry-gas lines or bands, for they are only then conspicuous, and are chiefly great B, the alpha band between C and D, and a remarkable band on the green side of the universally-known D-line of the regular solar spectrum, that band being remarkable not only for being situated as a dark shade in the otehrwise brightest part of the spectrum of daylight, but by being much more dependent than other dry bands on the lowness of altitude of the sun at the moment for its full and darkest development, and thence called in these inquiries the "low-sun band.""
Example
More examples"These precautions being taken, there was no difficulty in recognizing, first, during frosty weather, when meteorologists know there is a minimum of moisture in the air, what should be the normal appearance of dry-gas lines or bands, for they are only then conspicuous, and are chiefly great B, the alpha band between C and D, and a remarkable band on the green side of the universally-known D-line of the regular solar spectrum, that band being remarkable not only for being situated as a dark shade in the otehrwise brightest part of the spectrum of daylight, but by being much more dependent than other dry bands on the lowness of altitude of the sun at the moment for its full and darkest development, and thence called in these inquiries the "low-sun band.""
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