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EVECTION (Latin for " carrying away ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 5 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EVECTION (Latin for " carrying away ")  , in
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astronomy, the largest inequality produced by the
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action of the
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sun in the monthly revolution of the
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moon around the
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earth . The deviation expressed by it has a maximum amount of about 1° 15' in either direction . It may be considered as arising from a semi-
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annual variation in the eccentricity of the moon's
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orbit and the position of its
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perigee . It was discovered by
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Ptolemy .

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