superior meridian
Astronomy
noun
(In relation to the motion of circumpolar stars) that part of the celestial meridian which extends from the celestial pole and passes through the zenith (now rare ).
Origin
Early 19th century. After French méridien supérieur.
- reflectionist
- reflectionless
- reflection nebula
- reflection oscillator
- reflection profiling
- reflection shooting
- reflection spectroscopy
- reflective
- reflectively
- reflectiveness
- reflectivity
- reflectogram
- reflectogramme
- reflectograph
- reflectographic
- reflectography
- reflectometer
- reflectometry
- reflector
- reflector antenna
- reflectored
- reflectorial
- reflectorially
- reflectorise
- reflectorised