ephemeris
noun
a table showing the positions of a heavenly body on a number of dates in a regular sequence.
ephemerides
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pluralof ephemeris.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The preceding are the principal astronomical and nautical ephemerides of the world, but there are a number of minor publications, of the same class, of which I cannot pretend to give a complete list.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Simon Newcomb
These ephemerides of politics are not made for our slow and coarse understandings.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Lord Crawford has printed a catalogue of his Proclamations, and in the writer's Collections, 1867-92, occur thousands of these ephemerides arranged under what appeared to be their appropriate heads.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
To avoid any chance of mistake, it should be prominently stated on each page of the ephemerides that mean time reckoned from mean midnight is kept throughout.
France," he says, "created more than two centuries ago the most ancient nautical ephemerides in existence.
