 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...earth worms, to obtain its food. The other species are found in America. See plate Serpentes, fig. 2. AMPLITUDE, in astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point thereof, and the centre of the suu, star, or planet, at its rising and setting, and so is either north... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...amplifies the circumstances of his death. — Ast illi solvuntur frigore membra, Vitaque cum geraitu fugit indignata sub umbras. The masters of eloquence...of the latitude, to radius, so is the sine of the declination of the body, to the sine of its amplitude. Amplitude Magnetical, is an arch of the horizon... | |
 | William Nicholson - Arts - 1819 - 432 pages
...earth worms, to obtain its food. The other species are found in America. Sec plate Serpentes, fig 2. AMPLITUDE, in astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point thereof, and the centre of the sun, star, or planet, at its rising and setting, and so is either north... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...&c.amplification of things, as where a multiplication of causes, circumstances, &c. is introduced. AMPLITUDE, in astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted...of the latitude, to radius, so is, the sine of the declination of the body, to the sine of its amplitude. AMPOTIS, aborte, Gr. literally the ebb of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 892 pages
...amplification of things, as where a multiplication of causes, circumstances, &c. is introduced. AMPI.ITI'DF, in astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted between...occasive. The amplitude of a heavenly body may be found trieonometrically by saying, as the cosine of the latitude, to radius, so is, the sine of the declination... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1829 - 238 pages
...by contests between wild beasts, or beasts and men as savage as beasts. AMPLITUDE, a north or south arch of the horizon, intercepted between the east or west point ; and the centre of ltie sun, star, or planet, at its rising and seti j. AMPUTATION, surgical ; catting off a limb, or... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 240 pages
...by contests between wild beasts, or beasts and men as savage as beasts. AMPLITUDE, a north or south arch of the horizon, intercepted between the east or west point ; and the centre of the sun, star, or planet, at its rising and setting. AMPUTATION, surgical j cutting off a limb, or part of the... | |
 | Tobias Ostrander - Astronomy - 1834 - 272 pages
...measured from the horizon. Amphiscians, are the people who inhabit the torrid zone. Amplitude, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point, and the centre of the Sun or star at its rising or setting. Andromeda, a northern constellation, containing, according to Flamstead,... | |
 | Thomas Squire - Astronomy - 1836 - 332 pages
...shadows at noon, turned sometimes one way and sometimes another, or north and south. AMPLITUDE, is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point, and the centre of the sun, or star, at its rising or setting. ANALEMMA, is a projection of the sphere on the plane of the meridian... | |
 | John Rowbotham - English language - 1838 - 404 pages
...will. Am'-pli-tude, s. — amplitude, largeness, bigness, compass. In astronomy amplitude is an arc of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point, and the centre of the sun or star at its rising or setting. An'-i-mal, a. and s. — animalis, having life : or from animal, a living... | |
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AMPLITUDE, in astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the east or west point and the centre of the sun, or a planet, at its rising or setting; and so is either north and south, or ortive and occasive. 
