Usually means: Angular distance west of meridian.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. hour angle: Merriam-Webster
  2. hour angle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hour angle: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hour angle: Vocabulary.com
  5. hour angle: Wordnik
  6. hour angle: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. hour angle: Dictionary.com
  8. Hour angle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. hour angle: Rhymezone
  10. hour angle: FreeDictionary.org
  11. hour angle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hour angle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hour angle, Hour angle: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hour Angle: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Hour Angle: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See hour_angles as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Hour angle)

noun:  In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the meridian plane (containing Earth's axis and the zenith) and the hour circle (containing Earth's axis and a given point of interest).


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