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azimuth

In astronomy, angular distance of an object eastwards along the horizon, measured from due north, between the astronomical meridian (the vertical circle passing through the centre of the sky and the north and south points on the horizon) and the vertical circle containing the celestial body whose position is to be measured.



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The starting and ending latitude and longitude were then converted to distance and azimuthal angle following the method described by Snyder (1987).
Forecasting mesoscale convective complex movement in Central South ... by Corfidi, Stephen F. / National Weather Digest
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On the measurement of the electron-neutrino correlation in neutron ... by Bowman, J. David / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
The octagonal arrangement of the eight detector segments gives nearly full coverage of the 2[pi] of azimuthal angle around the beam.
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