Sentence examples for degrees of arc from inspiring English sources
It is often expressed in units of time rather than degrees of arc.
The inclination, or tilt, of a planet's orbit is measured in degrees of arc from the plane of Earth's orbit, called the ecliptic.
Between one Hulcher frame and the next, Woods's driver travelled through roughly two hundred degrees of arc, which means that a ball sitting unthreatened on the tee in one frame would be long gone by the next.
The angle VSN, in degrees of arc, is the longitude of the ascending node, i.e., of the point where the moving planet passes north of the plane of Earth's orbit.
In the current syzygy, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus and the Sun are all very close to lined up, although, according to Tom Lisser, senior lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium, the closest they came to an exact syzygy was last Saturday, when all were within 2 degrees of arc from a perfect straight line.
The visual angle is the angle a viewed object subtends at the eye, usually stated in degrees of arc [20].
The length of a degree of arc of latitude is approximately 111 km (69 miles), varying, because of the nonuniformity of Earth's curvature, from 110.567 km (68.706 miles) at the Equator to 111.699 km (69.41 miles) at the poles.
A nautical mile was originally defined as the length on the Earth's surface of one minute (1/60 of a degree) of arc along a meridian (north-south line of longitude).
These criteria that you put down would apply very well to the theory of relativity with measurements of very small fractions of a degree of arc in the neighborhood of a bright disk of the sun. A. Yes, well now take an example I've often thought of.
(b) A system of quick-reading mechanical verniers by means of which the observer can read at a glance the smaller sub‑divisions of one degree of arc.
