angular distance

What does angular distance mean?

angular distance means "the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer".

Is angular distance a common word?

angular distance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for angular distance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.