What does minute of arc mean?

minute of arc means "a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree".

What is another word for minute of arc?

Close synonyms include minute, arcminute. 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 minute of arc a common word?

minute of arc 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.

minute of arc — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
Synonymsminute arcminute
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