What is a great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday called?
meridian — (Astron.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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