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Definition of Superior conjunction
1. Noun. (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the opposite side of the sun.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superior Conjunction
Literary usage of Superior conjunction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1844)
"Observation on the Planet Venus at the time of its superior conjunction. By THOMAS
DICK, Esq. AM-t On Monday the 2d October 1843, the planet Venus passed ..."
2. American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge edited by Jared Sparks, Johann Schobert, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1835)
"But the inferior planets from inferior to superior conjunction, and the others
from conjunction to opposition, pass the meridian between midnight and noon, ..."
3. The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Ll.D.: Eleven Volumes in Two by Thomas Dick (1851)
"In order to illustrate seen when only six days and nineteen hours this point to
the astronomical tyro in the most past the time of her superior conjunction. ..."
4. Astronomical Register (1865)
"superior conjunction OF VENUS.—In a letter dated July 5th, Mr. WL Banks, of
Baling, states that on that day at noon he observed Venus, being then within ..."
5. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1910)
"From this time on she will rise later and later, until the time of her superior
conjunction on November 2(i. becoming invisible considerably before that ..."
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