Sentence examples for great circle from inspiring English sources
noun
A circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
During geomagnetic disturbances period on ionograms we can see anomalous diffuse signals, which propagates outside great circle arc.
Navigational radio signals also follow great circle paths.
A hawk soared in a great circle around them.
The great circle route westward over the Arctic.
The celestial equator intersects another useful great circle, the ecliptic.
This great circle passes through one exclave; go there.
The scheme relies on backward trajectories and the resulting upstream cells (polygons) are approximated with great-circle arcs.
The great-circle distance between two manifold points is unique.
The calculated travel time ((t_{text{cal}})) purely propagated along a great-circle path from a point to a point.
The shortest path will always be a great-circle course".
An isolation-by-distance model (using great-circle distances) on the same data gave R2 = 0.16.
