circumpolarn.
A circumpolar star.
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1888 C. A. Young Text-bk. Gen. Astron. iv. 70 Determination of Latitude... By Circumpolars.
1910 G. L. Hosmer Text-bk. Pract. Astron. 30 If the observer travels north until he is beyond the arctic circle, latitude 66° 33′ north, then the sun becomes a circumpolar at the time of the summer solstice.
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circumpolaradj.
/səːkəmˈpəʊlə/ 1. Astronomy. Around or about the pole (of the heavens); spec. applied to those stars (or other heavenly bodies) which (in any given latitude) describe the whole of their diurnal circles above the horizon. So circumpolar motion.
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1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 214 Some Circumpolar Stars in the same Vertical with the Pole-star.
1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 166 Observations of the sun and circumpolar stars.
1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) iii. 133 The comet remained long..visible as a circumpolar object.
1881 Nature 5 May 13/1 This allows the telescope circumpolar motion.
2. Geography. Round or about either terrestrial pole.
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1696 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth iv. 267 The middle, and their neighbouring parts..Elevated, and the circumpolar depress'd.
1864 Sat. Rev. 31 Dec. 819/1 The opinion that there exists an Antartic circumpolar continent.
1880 Carpenter in 19th Cent. No. 38. 612 The vast circumpolar area.
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