solar parallax

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   the angle subtended by the mean equatorial radius of the Earth at a distance of one astronomical unit

   Broadergeocentric parallax

Questions about solar parallax

What does solar parallax mean?

solar parallax means "the angle subtended by the mean equatorial radius of the Earth at a distance of one astronomical unit".

Is solar parallax a common word?

solar parallax 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.