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681 | celestial globe | See STAR GLOBE. |
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682 | celestial horizon | See HORIZON. |
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683 | celestial latitude | See LATITUDE. |
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684 | celestial line of position | A LINE OF POSITION determined by means of one CELESTIAL BODY. |
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685 | celestial longitude | See LONGITUDE. |
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686 | celestial meridian | See MERIDIAN. |
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687 | celestial navigation | See NAVIGATION. |
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688 | celestial pole | See POLE. |
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689 | celestial sphere | An imaginary sphere of infinite radius, concentric with the EARTH, on which CELESTIAL BODIES are imagined to be projected. Also called celes... more |
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690 | cellular wave | See WAVE. |
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691 | Celsius temperature scale | A thermodynamic scale of temperature (t°C) defined as a function of the KELVIN TEMPERATURE SCALE (T°K) by the relationship t°C = T°K 273.15.... more |
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692 | centering (or centring) | The placing of an instrument with its VERTICAL AXIS in the VERTICAL through the ground mark. The setting of LENSES of an optical instrument... more |
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693 | centigrade temperature scale | See CELSIUS TEMPERATURE SCALE. |
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694 | centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system | The system of physical units in which the fundamental units of length, mass and TIME are the centimetre, GRAM and SECOND, respectively. |
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695 | central meridian | See MERIDIAN: INITIAL. |
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696 | central processing unit (CPU) | In computers in general the unit that comprises the arithmetic logic unit and the control unit. |
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697 | centre: reduction to | See REDUCTION. |
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698 | centre of buoyancy | See BUOYANCY. |
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699 | centre of gravity | See GRAVITY. |
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700 | centrifugal force | The force with which a body moving under constraint along a curved PATH reacts to the constraint. Equal and opposite to the CENTRIPETAL FORC... more |