angular diameter
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of angular diameter
First recorded in 1870–75
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The telescope spent 10 days of exposure time staring at a tiny patch of the sky in the Ursa Major constellation, just one-thirteenth of the moon’s angular diameter.
From Scientific American • Jul. 15, 2022
Unfortunately, the Sun is the only star whose angular diameter is easily measured.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Since we know how rapidly the Moon moves in its orbit around Earth, it is possible to calculate the angular diameter of the star.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
Confirm that the angular diameter of the Sun of 1/2° corresponds to a linear diameter of 1.39 million km.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
It is one-fifteenth the angular diameter of the full Moon as seen from Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
