Term: right ascension: (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere
Candidate hypernym: angular distance: the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer → 1
Candidate hypernym: control: a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another → 0
Candidate hypernym: emphasis: special importance or significance → 0
Candidate hypernym: halcyon: a large kingfisher widely distributed in warmer parts of the Old World → 0
Candidate hypernym: joss stick: a slender stick of incense burned before a joss by the Chinese → 0
Candidate hypernym: note payable: a note promising to pay a certain amount of money at a certain time → 0
Candidate hypernym: detritus: loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks → 0
Candidate hypernym: haemanthus: genus of African deciduous or evergreen bulbous herbs: blood lilies → 0
Candidate hypernym: chine: cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone → 0
Candidate hypernym: bombycillidae: a family of birds of the suborder Oscines → 0
Candidate hypernym: malpighian body: the capsule that contains Bowman's capsule and a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron → 0