heavenly body in English
In the coming months, astronomy enthusiasts are in for a string of rare celestial events involving the heavenly bodies in the solar system.
Use "heavenly body" in a sentence
1. The sun is a heavenly body.
2. Azimuth refers to the angular distance from the north or south point of the horizon to the vertical circle’s foot through a heavenly body
3. Culmination (countable and uncountable, plural Culminations) ( astronomy ) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavenly body ; passage across the meridian ; transit
4. His Antiquity-instinct tells him that every heavenly body worth inhabiting must - correctly understood - be an ascetic planet inhabited by the practising, the aspiring and the virtuosos
5. When a star or other heavenly body Culminates, it reaches the point at which it is highest above the horizon from the vantage point of an observer on the ground.
6. As verbs the difference between pinnacle and Culminate is that pinnacle is to put something on a pinnacle while Culminate is (astronomy) of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude
7. Azimuth definition, the arc of the horizon measured clockwise from the south point, in astronomy, or from the north point, in navigation, to the point where a vertical circle through a given heavenly body intersects the horizon
8. View in context The "bit of womanhood" was our old acquaintance Bessy Cranage, otherwise Chad's Bess, whose large red cheeks and Blowsy person had undergone an exaggeration of colour, which, if she had happened to be a heavenly body, would have
9. Culmination (n.) 1630s, in astronomy/astrology, "position of a heavenly body when it is on the meridian," from French Culmination, noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin culminare "to top, to crown," from Latin culmen (genitive culminis) "top, peak, summit, roof, gable," also used figuratively, contraction of columen "top, summit" (from PIE root *kel-(2) "to be prominent; hill").