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Meridian vs Dipleidoscope - What's the difference?

meridian | dipleidoscope |

As a proper noun meridian

is a cdp in colorado.

As a noun dipleidoscope is

(astronomy) an instrument for determining the time of apparent noon it consists of two mirrors and a plane glass in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's centre is on the meridian.

meridian

Noun

(en noun)
  • An imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles.
  • Either half of such a great circle, all points of which have the same longitude.
  • (astronomy) A great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular observer.
  • (mathematics) A similar line on any general surface of revolution.
  • (alternative medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which the vital energy is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed.
  • The highest point, as of success, prosperity, etc.; culmination.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, / And from that full meridian of my glory / I haste now to my setting.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Meridional; relating to a meridian.
  • Relating to noon
  • Relating to the highest point or culmination.
  • meridian splendour

    dipleidoscope

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's centre is on the meridian.
  • (Webster 1913)