celestial horizon

1. 1.

   the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth

   Synonymshorizon

   Broadergreat circle

Questions about celestial horizon

What does celestial horizon mean?

celestial horizon means "the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth".

What is another word for celestial horizon?

Close synonyms include horizon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is celestial horizon a common word?

celestial horizon 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.