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e|clip|tic
e|clip|tic «ih KLIHP tihk», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. the path that the sun appears to travel in one year. It is that great circle of the celestial sphere which is cut by the plane containing the orbit of the earth.
2. the great circle on the terrestrial sphere which at any given moment lies in the plane of the celestial ecliptic.
–adj.
1. of the ecliptic.
2. having to do with an eclipse.
[< Latin eclīpticus < Greek ekleiptikós having to do with an ékleipsis eclipse]

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