apastra
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If we suppose the apastra of the two stars to occur simultaneously, there will be two minima, “but the maxima will be constant.”"
- "But if both motions proceed in the same sense, then the binary stars will traverse that half of their galactic orbit with their apastra forward."
- "The rotation involved is that of the location of the peri- and apastra, i.e. the line of apsides of the ellipse: it is thus called apsidal motion."