what does ecliptic mean?
ECLIPTIC as NOUN
- Meaning
- the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun
- the plane of the Earth’’s orbit around the sun
- makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator
Usage Example(s)
- all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic
Hypernyms(s) ecliptic is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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