Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Situated directly beneath the sun.
- adjective Located between the tropics; equatorial.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being under the sun; terrestrial; specifically, being between the tropics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective directly beneath the
sun - adjective between the
tropics ;equatorial
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Examples
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The location on the Earth where the sun is directly overhead at solar noon is known as the subsolar point.
Earth-Sun geometry 2009
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The subsolar point is located at the Tropic of Capricorn on the winter solstice.
Earth-Sun geometry 2009
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The subsolar point occurs on the equator during the equinoxes (Figure 8).
Earth-Sun geometry 2009
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During the summer solstice, the subsolar point moves to the Tropic of Cancer because at this time the North Pole is tilted 23. 5° toward the sun.
Earth-Sun geometry 2009
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And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.
Ulysses 2003
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CHRIS CALLINAN: What is the parallax of the subsolar ecliptic of
Ulysses 2003
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In the end the entire subsolar point of Isis was hammered and blasted into a jumbled plain of fresh volcanoes, where the slumbering magma of Isis broke through as the crust itself fractured under the pounding, conjuring up deep tectonic thrashings that forever denied to life the moist birthing point at the warmest spot on the planet, and instead made the Eye.
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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Out from the hard-baked center, the subsolar point, swept winds heavy with pungent acid dust.
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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And as the ends and ultimates of all things accord in some mean and measure with their inceptions and originals, that same multiplicit concordance which leads forth growth from birth accomplishing by a retrogressive metamorphosis that minishing and ablation towards the final which is agreeable unto nature so is it with our subsolar being.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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CHRIS CALLINAN: What is the parallax of the subsolar ecliptic of
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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