true anomaly

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   the angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis measured in degrees

   Broaderangular distance

Questions about true anomaly

What does true anomaly mean?

true anomaly means "the angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis measured in degrees".

Is true anomaly a common word?

true anomaly 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.