Heliacal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HELIACAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to the sun, also HELIAC
• relating to or near the sun.
• Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; rising or setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun.
• pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun
• rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• heliacal risingrising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun

Words related to HELIACAL

heliac11 heliacally18

Words that contain HELIACAL

heliacally18 parheliacal18

How to use HELIACAL in a sentence

• They approximated to the truth in reference to the solar year, by observing the equinoxes and solstices and the heliacal rising of particular stars.
• The heliacal rising of Canopus was also a precursor of the rising of the Nile.
• In Egypt, another reason was, that then the Nile began to overflow, at the heliacal rising of Sirius.
• In that connection there are three kinds of them, cosmical, achronical, and heliacal, important to be distinguished by all who would understand this ancient learning.

Similar words containing HELIAC without suffix al

heliac11 heliacally18 parheliacal18

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