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COLURE (from Gr. icoXos, shortened, a...

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLURE (from Gr. icoXos, shortened, and oupa, tail) , in astronomy, either of the two
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principal meridians of the celestial 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 colure and equinoxial colure, respectively .

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