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The sun’s apparent yearly path across the sky, or the plane of Earth’s orbit associated with it.
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- ecliptic plane
- ecliptic longitude
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The planet lay close to the ecliptic.
The display marked the ecliptic plane.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular ecliptic; plural ecliptics. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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