Analemma Definition

ănə-lĕmə
noun
A graduated scale in the shape of a figure eight, indicating the sun's declination and the equation of time for every day of the year, often found on sundials and globes.
American Heritage
A curve in the form of an elongated 8 marked with a scale, drawn on a globe of the earth to show the sun's declination and the equation of time for any day of the year: formed by plotting the sun's actual daily position at noon (mean solar time) for a year.
Webster's New World

An egg-shaped or figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year at the same hour of mean solar time every day.

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Other Word Forms of Analemma

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Singular:
analemma
Plural:
analemmas, analemmata

Origin of Analemma

  • Latin sundial from Greek analēmma from analambanein to take up analeptic

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἀνάλημμα (analēmma, “pedestal of a sundial”).

    From Wiktionary

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