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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἀνάλημμα“pedestal of a sundial”
- English todayanalemma
From Ancient Greek ἀνάλημμα (análēmma, “pedestal of a sundial”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
analemma
Today it means: A figure-eight curve that results when the Sun's position in the sky is plotted out over the year at the same hour of mean solar time every day. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀνάλημμα