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See also:COLURE (from Gr. icoXos, shortened, and oupa, tail) , in See also:astronomy, either of the two See also:principal meridians of the See also:celestial See also:sphere, one of which passes through the poles and the two solstices, the other through the poles and the two equinoxes; hence designated as solstitial See also:colure and equinoxial colure, respectively . |
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