geocentric : Idioms & Phrases
Geocentric latitude
- (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the geographic latitude.
Webster 1913
geocentric parallax
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noun the parallax of a celestial body using two points on the surface of the earth as the earth rotates
diurnal parallax.
