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• apparent noon — noun : the instant of transit of the sun s center over the meridian at any particular place compare apparent time * * * apparent noon, the moment when the sun s center crosses the meridian …   Useful english dictionary

• noon fix — A positional fix obtained from any celestial body (generally the sun) that is close to the observer’s zenith. Such a fix generally is obtained at a time when the observed altitude of a body is greatest, as it is then practical to plot the line of …   Aviation dictionary

• Noon Wine — is a 1937 short novel written by American author Katherine Anne Porter. It was published in 1939 as part of Pale Horse, Pale Rider (ISBN 0 15 170755 3), a collection of three short novels by the author, including the title story and Old Mortality …   Wikipedia

• Noon — For other uses, see Noon (disambiguation). Midday redirects here. For other uses, see Midday (disambiguation). Noon time redirects here. For the song by Zion I, see Heroes in the City of Dope. Noon (also mid day or noon time) is usually defined… …   Wikipedia

• Apparent time — Time Time, n.; pl. {Times}. [OE. time, AS. t[=i]ma, akin to t[=i]d time, and to Icel. t[=i]mi, Dan. time an hour, Sw. timme. [root]58. See {Tide}, n.] 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Mean noon — Mean Mean, a. [OE. mene, OF. meiien, F. moyen, fr. L. medianus that is in the middle, fr. medius; akin to E. mid. See {Mid}.] 1. Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. [1913 Webster] Being of middle age and a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Rainbow (Noon Universe) — Rainbow (Радуга, pronounced: Raduga ) is a fictional planet described in Far Rainbow by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. This planet is a part of the so called Noon Universe and presents a planetwide experimental laboratory used by null physicists… …   Wikipedia

• Foundlings (Noon Universe) — In the Noon Universe created by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the foundlings are a group of 13 humans, who evolved out of the embryos stored in the sarcophagus . The embryos were discovered on December 26, 2137 by Boris Fokin s group of explorers… …   Wikipedia

• Solar Noon —   The time of the day, at a specific location, when the sun reaches its highest, apparent point in the sky; equal to true or due, geographic south …   Energy terms

• Solar time — On a prograde planet like the Earth, the sidereal day is shorter than the solar day. At time 1, the Sun and a certain distant …   Wikipedia

• History of longitude — The history of longitude is a record of the effort, by navigators and scientists over several centuries, to discover a means of determining longitude. The measurement of longitude is important to both cartography and navigation. Historically, the …   Wikipedia