Usually means: Circle intersecting celestial poles, equator.
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  5. colure: Wiktionary
  6. colure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  12. colure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  14. colure: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  16. colure: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (colure)

▸ noun:  (astronomy) Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.

Similar:
solstitial colure, equinoctial colure, equinoctial, hour circle, equinoctial circle, equator, equinoxial, midcircle, longitude, ecliptic, more...

Opposite:
anticolure, noncolure, reverse colure

Phrases:
equinoctial colure, solstitial colure, more...

Adjectives:
equinoctial, solstitial, solsticial, vernal, folftitial, equinoxial, graduated, ecliptic

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Similar:
solstitial colure, equinoctial colure, equinoctial, hour circle, equinoctial circle, equator, equinoxial, midcircle, longitude, ecliptic, more...

Opposite:
anticolure, noncolure, reverse colure

Phrases:
equinoctial colure, solstitial colure, more...

Adjectives:
equinoctial, solstitial, solsticial, vernal, folftitial, equinoxial, graduated, ecliptic



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