great circle

How To Use great circle In A Sentence

• The equinoctial colure is a great circle which passes through the celestial poles and the ecliptic at the two equinoxes.
• Two great circles, the solstitial colure and the equinoctial colure, intersect at the celestial poles.
• Although admirers of Celtic art have often noted that the triquetra (Latin tri quetrus for three-cornered) is an endless and eternal knot, somewhat akin to the great circle of life or the path that comes back to its own beginning, there is actually very little that is known about the origin or meaning of the symbol.
• All those who thus died are graveless and monumentless, the great circle of the heavens is the dome of their sepulchre, and the recurring blossoms of springtime their only epitaph. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
• I thought then that he meant one great circle entrapped all of us. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
• Mr. Fabry replied that the orthodromic distance great circle of the trip to be WSSRC recognized must exceed 21,600 nautical miles. True Spirit
• First of all, a great circle route is the most efficient, and second, we try to take advantage of tailwinds and stay out of headwinds, all of which goes into determining our actual route of flight.
• Across the road to the south-west was the third circle, about half the size of the great circle.
• The last chart is using azimuthal projection from Singpaore, so that every striaght line from the center represents the shortest (great circle) distance, (but lines not passing the centers are not). The Myth of the strategic location of the Taiwan Strait
• This trio may have been unusual in painting outdoors, but they were far from the first to try to catch the drama of the landscape, an attempt that started in the 1750s with William Beller's print of the great circle of mountains surrounding Derwentwater. A passion for painting in the Lake District