| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. An alternative spelling for "Anomalistical": Irregular; departing from common or established rules.[Websters]
2. Being abnormal, aberrant, irregular or unnatural.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "ANOMALISTIC" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Common Expressions: ANOMALISTIC
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Anomalistic month | Period between successive perigees; approximately 27.5546 days. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Anomalistic revolution | The period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Anomalistic year | 1: The time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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Specialty Expressions: ANOMALISTIC
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Anomalistic month | Aerospace | The average period of revolution of the moon from perigee to perigee, a period of 27 days 13 hours 18 minutes 33.2 seconds. (references) | |
| Anomalistic period | Aerospace | The interval between two successive perigee passages of a satellite in orbit about a primary. Also called perigee-to-perigee period. (references) | |
| Anomalistic period | Post & Telecom | The time elapsing between two successive passages of a satellite through its periapsis. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Anomalistic year | Aerospace | The period of one revolution of the earth about the sun from perihelion to perihelion; 365 days 6 hours 13 minutes 53.0 seconds in 1900 and increasing at the rate of 0.26 second per century. (references) | |
| Anomalistic year | Geography | The period of time (365. 2596413 days) for the sun to increase the mean anomaly by 360 degrees. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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