Examples of arc minute in a Sentence
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The technologies' outcome, like the number of stars, is also stupefying: The Mesopotamians might have been off by a finger or so held at arm's length, maybe a degree of arc, and Hipparchus was off by about half a degree, or 30 arc minutes.
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Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1892, in the meaning defined above
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“Arc minute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arc%20minute. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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