annual aberration

English

Noun

annual aberration (plural annual aberrations)

(astronomy) A deviation due to the Earth's orbital motion.
- 2023 February 7 (last accessed) Aberration of light‎, chemeurope.com:
  Annual aberration causes stars exactly on the ecliptic to appear to move back and forth along a straight line, varying by κ on either side of their true position.

Translations

deviation due to the Earth's orbital motion

Dutch: jaarlijkse aberratie m
Portuguese: aberração anual f

References

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “annual aberration”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

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