obliquity
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Sweeping statements were made about genre and obliquity and readerly expectations.
From Slate • Mar. 26, 2019
That, combined with the fact it is presently very difficult to measure an exoplanet’s tilt, has led most astronomers to mostly ignore obliquity when they model the evolution of planetary systems.
From Scientific American • Mar. 4, 2019
Then György Kurtag’s “The Answered Unanswered Question,” music on the edge of obliquity that answers nothing.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2018
Bishop’s withholding is less a matter of Moore-like modernist obliquity, however, than of the guarded reticence that was her legacy and her means of control.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017
This angle, which may be called the obliquity of Mars’ ecliptic, does not differ much from that of the earth.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard
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