Meaning of great-circle arc | Babel Free

Definitions

a segment of a great circle

Examples

“This causes a greater deviation of the ground trace from a great-circle arc due to the increased effect of Earth's rotation.”

“The two axes connected by the solid but incomplete great-circle arc were measured along a single sahlfold axial surface on opposite sides of a tubular fold ; ...”

“... it may be swung in a meridian-plane, and a great-circle arc having a radial pivot in said meridian-plane, ...”

“Any great-circle arc of length #92;theta between zero and #92;pi is uniquely identified by its two end points, say a and b.”

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