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Definition of Ansae
1. ansa [n] - See also: ansa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ansae
Literary usage of Ansae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian, Concerning the Aboriginal History by James Haines McCulloh (1829)
"... in cujus capite circulus in modo ansae, ac- Raziel. Cham vero ope ejus fecit
mirabilia ... ansae ..."
2. The Observatory by Royal Astronomical Society (Gran Bretaña), Royal Greenwich Observatory, NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstract Service, Royal astronomical society GB (1883)
"The results from the six series, after reducing to the mean distance of Saturn,
9-5389, and correcting for the phase, are (the measures of the two ansae ..."
3. The Intellectual Observer (1867)
"7 to May 2, the ansae preserved invariably a wedge-shaped aspect, ... 18, ansae
equal. —1862. Huggins, May 2, 12, 13, two bright dots E. at inner and outer ..."
4. A Complete System of Astronomy by Samuel Vince, Nicolas Louis de La Caille, Tobias Mayer, Franz Xaver Zach, James Bradley (1814)
"Change the title of the inclination of the line of the ansai of the ring to
Saturn's orbit to the contrary; and if the inclination of the line of the ansae ..."
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