单词 | nautical twilight |
释义 | > as lemmasnautical twilight nautical twilight n. the two periods of the day immediately before sunrise and after sunset when the sun is less than 12 degrees below the true horizon. ΚΠ 1936 Naut. Almanac 1937 Pref. The pages of Sunrise, Sunset and Twilight have been rearranged and Civil and Nautical Twilight are given for the first time. 1936 Naut. Almanac 1937 202 The time when the Sun has a depression,of 12° is here termed nautical twilight. 1986 T. Clancy Red Storm Rising (1988) xxi. 317 The light level was what meteorologists and sailors called nautical twilight. 1991 Discover Mar. 82/1 Nautical twilight persists longer, until the sun is 12 degrees down. That's when the horizon vanishes, when a mariner cannot distinguish between sea and sky. < as lemmas |
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