The conversation had roamed in a desultory spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic.
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Ecliptic
Synonyms for "ecliptic" (58 found)
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61 translations across 55 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- sonnebaan noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Albanian
1 entries- ekliptikë noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Arabic
1 entries- مَسَارُ الشَّمْسِ noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Armenian
1 entries- խավարածիր noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Basque
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Belarusian
1 entries- экліптыка noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Bulgarian
1 entries- еклиптика noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Catalan
1 entries- eclíptica noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 黃道 /黄道 noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Czech
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Danish
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Dutch
2 entries- ecliptica noun (Earth's orbital plane)
- schijnbare zonneweg noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Esperanto
1 entries- ekliptiko noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Estonian
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Finnish
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
French
1 entries- écliptique noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Galician
1 entries- eclíptica noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Georgian
1 entries- ეკლიპტიკა noun (Earth's orbital plane)
German
1 entries- Ekliptik noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Greek
1 entries- εκλειπτική noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Hebrew
1 entries- מישור המילקה noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Hindi
2 entries- क्रांतिवृत्त noun (Earth's orbital plane)
- सूर्यपथ noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Hungarian
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Icelandic
1 entries- sólbaugur noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Ido
1 entries- ekliptiko noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Indonesian
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Irish
1 entries- éiclipteach noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Italian
1 entries- eclittica noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Japanese
1 entries- 黄道 noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Kazakh
1 entries- эклиптика noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Korean
1 entries- 황도 noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Latvian
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Macedonian
1 entries- еклиптика noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Malay
1 entries- ekliptik noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Malayalam
2 entries- ക്രാന്തിപഥം noun (Earth's orbital plane)
- ക്രാന്തിവൃത്തം noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Marathi
1 entries- क्रांतिवृत्त noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Norwegian
1 entries- ekliptikken noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Persian
1 entries- دایرةالبروج noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Polish
1 entries- ekliptyka noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Portuguese
1 entries- eclíptica noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਸੂਰਜੀ ਪੰਧ noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Romanian
1 entries- ecliptică noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Russian
1 entries- экли́птика noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
- еклиптика noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Slovak
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Slovene
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Spanish
1 entries- eclíptica noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Swedish
1 entries- ekliptika noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Tagalog
1 entries- guhitlaw noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Thai
2 entries- รวิมรรค noun (Earth's orbital plane)
- สุริยวิถี noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Turkish
2 entries- ekliptik noun (Earth's orbital plane)
- tutulum noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Ukrainian
1 entries- еклі́птика noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hoàng đạo noun (Earth's orbital plane)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
On his return to Greece he founded the Ionian school, and taught the sphericity of the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the true causes of eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
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The plane in which the Earth revolves around the Sun is called the ecliptic or ecliptic plane.
Source: tatoeba (12786598)
The plane in which the Earth moves around the Sun is called the ecliptic or ecliptic plane.
Source: tatoeba (12786599)
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