position angle

British  

noun

1. the direction in which one object lies relative to another on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees from north in an easterly direction

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Example Sentences

“I have no doubts it is the prototype presented to Paul Terrell. I have very detailed copies of the Polaroids; every little detail is the same. The 20+ resistors are all in the same position, angle and direction,” Mr. Baqué wrote in the email, which was acquired by technology publication BetaNews.

From Washington Times

Body measurements are taken from the competitors – in the case of the few who declined in Stuttgart, a standard template was used – and their movements are then tracked for position, angle and speed, instantly processed and fed to the competition judges in graphic form as a clear real-time analysis of every performance.

From The Guardian

To make that possible, Dainese’s technicians use gyroscopes, accelerometers and a GPS tracking device to monitor an athlete’s position, angle to the ground and speed.

From New York Times

Each weld is different and requires a different position, angle and technique.

From Washington Times

This construction would give all the advantage of the younger Dollond’s object-glass micrometer, and more than its sharpness of definition, without liability to the systematic errors which may be due to want of homogeneity of the object-glass; for the lenses will not be turned with respect to each other, but, in measurement, will always have the same relation in position angle to the line joining the objects under observation.

From Project Gutenberg