What is "ecliptics"

Usage examples of "ecliptics".

The ecliptics intersected 644 and 1428 terrestrial years after apastron or, in Helliconian terms, 453 and 1005 years after apastron.

A star chart of her making hung near the window, with the paths of the ecliptics of the two suns marked on it.

Most planets in most systems rotated in the planes of their ecliptics, so that their equators were warmest and their poles coldest.

Though the satellites of the moons revolve about the primaries in orbits inclined at all kinds of angles to the planes of the ecliptics, and even the moons vary in their paths about the planets, the planets themselves revolve about the stars, like those of this system about the sun, in substantially the same -400-plane.

Though the satellites of the moons revolve about the primaries in orbits inclined at all kinds of angles to the planes of the ecliptics, and even the moons vary in their paths about the planets, the planets themselves revolve about the stars, like those of this system about the sun, in substantially the same plane.