Achernar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Achernar
From Arabic ākhir al-nahr “end of the river”
Example Sentences
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Latitude by meridian altitude of Achernar 16 degrees 10 minutes.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
Latitude by meridian altitude of Achernar 15 degrees 50 minutes 30 seconds.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
Latitude by altitude of Achernar, 15 degrees 39 minutes 43 seconds. 25th November.
From Journals of Australian Explorations by Augustus Charles Gregory
Lower still, toward the south, Achernar seemed to reserve his gracious prestige, whilst, across the invisible Pole, the beneficent constellations of Crux and Centaurus exhibited the very paralysis of hopelessness.
From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy
The part visible in our latitudes does not contain bright stars, but at the southern extremity is the first-magnitude Achernar, a conspicuous object to southern observers.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
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