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AZIMUTH (from the Arabic)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 81 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AZIMUTH (from the Arabic)  , in astronomy, the angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the
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foot of the vertical circle through a heavenly
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body . In the case of a
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horizontal
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line the azimuth is its deviation from the north or south direction .

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