Sentence examples for hour circles from inspiring English sources

When the animal is stationary, the sampling interval is once an hour (circles 6 and 9).

Fig. 1 Relative root mean square deviations (ΔNmF2) between 15-minute time step medians of NmF2 and the values calculated with the LEMI under local steps equal to 0.5 hour (dashed line) and 1 hour (circles).

Su Song also created a celestial atlas (in five separate maps), which had the hour circles between the xiu (lunar mansions) forming the astronomical meridians, with stars marked in an equidistant cylindrical projection on each side of the equator, and thus, was in accordance to their north polar distances.

See also hour circle; ecliptic; zenith.

Hour angle is the angle, taken to be positive to the west, measured along the celestial equator between an observer's meridian and the hour circle on which some celestial point or object lies.

Right ascension, in astronomy, the east west coordinate by which the position of a celestial body is ordinarily measured; more precisely, it is the angular distance of a body's hour circle east of the vernal equinox, measured along the celestial equator.

Plans that would see up to 33 planes an hour, circling over a major horse breeding area, threaten to drive away the world's top stud owners, including the ruler of oil-rich Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, and Kirsten Rausing, the Tetra Pak heiress.

They spent the better part of a half an hour circling our small boats within just a few feet.

You have successfully made it through two years of grueling curriculum including, but not limited to, the following: dress up play, block building, pretend kitchen games, story hour, circle time and nose picking.

We were obsessed, spending a full hour circling, observing and marveling at LeDray's immense patience -- the installation took three years to complete -- and steady hand, presumably from a lack of caffeine consumption.

"HOW COME, MARCO RUBIO?" The trucks reportedly spent about an hour circling Rubio's office in Miami hoping to catch the senator's eye during his trip to visit the site of the shooting.