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arctic circle
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The Arctic Circle is the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth . The region north of this circle is known as the Arctic , and the zone just to the south is called the Northern Temperate Zone . North of the Arctic ...
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n. (alternative spelling of Arctic Circle English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, in reference to a celestial circle, a line around the sky which, in any location, bounds the stars which \nare ever-visible from that latitude (in the Northern Hemisphere, this is focused on the celestial north pole); the concept goes back to the ...
Usage examples of arctic circle.
He was asked bluntly what a military unit of the Soviet Army was doing in our sovereign section of the Arctic Circle.
Then the Great Bird swooped down, and left pairs of children around the rim of the Arctic Circle.
Harold Carpenter said today that chronic shortages of water in California, Europe, and other regions could be alleviated by a controlled melting of icebergs towed south from the Arctic Circle.
Opening the atlas to a map of the arctic regions, Doc drew Johnny's attention to a spot well north of the Arctic Circle.
Three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, where we at the present moment had the debatable fortune to be, the weather conditions can be as beautifully peaceful as any on earth, with mirror-smooth, milky-white seas stretching from horizon to horizon under a canopy of either washed-out blue or stars that are less stars than little chips of frozen fire in a black, black sky.