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azimuthal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌæzəˈmʌθəl/ (General-American)
  • /ˌæzəˈmuːθəl/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From azimuth + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.
  2. (not-comparable) Describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point (or in some cases two points).

Deriveds

nonazimuthal · isoazimuthal · azimuthal anisotropy · azimuthal projection · azimuthally · azimuthal quantum number · pseudoazimuthal · retroazimuthal · azimuthal chart · azimuthon

Translations (10)

et asimuut- (of or pertaining to the azimuth) · ga asamatach (of or pertaining to the azimuth) · fr azimutal (of or pertaining to the azimuth) · pl azymutalny (of or pertaining to the azimuth) · it azimutale (cartography: describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point) · ga asamatach (cartography: describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point) · hu azimutális (cartography: describing a map projection which preserves direction for all points relative to a selected point) · it azimutale (of or pertaining to the azimuth) · es azimutal (of or pertaining to the azimuth) · ro azimutal (of or pertaining to the azimuth)

azimuthal en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌæzəˈmʌθəl/ (General-American)
  • /ˌæzəˈmuːθəl/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From azimuth + -al.

Meanings

  1. An azimuthal projection.
    • Note that because of the square-well air-bag model, these synchrotron azimuthals are slightly different from the conventional ones. 2006, King-Yuen Ng, Physics of Intensity Dependent Beam Instabilities, page 454:

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