paran

The English word “paran” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

A latitude where, at some longitude at a given moment in time, two celestial bodies (or mathematical points, or any such bodies'/points' projections onto the ecliptic) were simultaneously one on the horizon and the other at its highest in the sky (culminating) or lowest below the horizon.

Short for paranatellonta, from Greek παρανατέλλοντα

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