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zodiacal
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context astronomy astrology English) of or pertaining to the zodiac
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from zodiac + -al (1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Zodiacal \Zo*di"a*cal\, a. [Cf. F. zodiacal.] (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as, the zodiacal planets. Zodiacal light , a luminous tract of the sky, of an elongated, triangular figure, lying near the ecliptic, its ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. relating to or included in the zodiac; "zodiacal constellations"
Usage examples of zodiacal.
Ramsbottom, the zodiacal mythologist, told him that he had done well to withdraw from the region of Uranus or Brahma, the Maker, to that of Saturn or Veeshnu, the Preserver, before he fell under the eye of Jupiter or Seva, the Destroyer, who might have struck him down at a blow.
The manuscript writing consisted of the common traditional symbols used today in astronomy and anciently in alchemy, astrology, and other dubious arts--the devices of the sun, moon, planets, aspects, and zodiacal signs--here massed in solid pages of text, with divisions and paragraphings suggesting that each symbol answered to some alphabetical letter.
Darker green and flecks of gold had been fused into twelve vaguely zodiacal shapes, placed annular on the surface of the bubble to represent the iris and also the face of the watch.
When he stopped down its brilliance in his optics, he perceived the disk maned with corona and elflock prominences, winged with zodiacal light.
And he greatly errs who imagines that, because the mythological legends and fables of antiquity are referable to and have their foundation in the phenomena of the Heavens, and all the Heathen Gods are but mere names given to the Sun, the Stars, the Planets, the Zodiacal Signs, the Elements, the Powers of Nature, and Universal Nature herself, therefore the first men worshipped the Stars, and whatever things, animate and inanimate, seemed to them to possess and exercise a power or influence, evident or imagined, over human fortunes and human destiny.
The zodiacal light is reduced by about a factor of 10 by the occulter, but it is not eliminated.
However, Cash has shown with simulations that, even with the halo of zodiacal light, at a distance of 23 light years the occulter and the JWST could observe Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter as bright spots in an image taken of the Solar System.
Zodiacal signs represented by the twelve Deities of the Persians, 663-u.
Soon her monitors showed that data was starting to come in on hydrogen alpha emission, ultraviolet line spectra, ultraviolet and X-ray imaging, spectrography of the active regions, zodiacal light, spectroheliographs.
And thus we see, on the monuments, the disk and crescent, symbols of the sun and moon in conjunction, appear successively,--first on the head, and then on the neck and back of the Zodiacal Bull, and more recently on the forehead of the Ram.
Of course, both the Gegenschein and the Zodiacal Light are too diffuse to be studied with telescopes, which, so to speak, magnify them out of existence.
Vega in the Lyre above the zenith beyond the stargroup of the Tress of Berenice towards the zodiacal sign of Leo.
Barnard has more recently devoted much attention to the Zodiacal Light, as well as to a strange attendant phenomenon called the ``Gegenschein,'' or Counterglow, because it always appears at that point in the sky which is exactly opposite the sun.
The annual or yearly apparent motion is much slower from west to east against the background of the starry landscape through a path known as the ecliptic, or zodiacal circle (containing the twelve zodiacal signs).
Zodiacal symbols were used to refer to chemical substances, drawings of men with suns for their heads and women with moons for theirs represented gold and silver, and a king and queen in connubial embrace showed the joining of opposites that was necessary to the success of the Work.