- The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as,
emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties. - The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or
occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth;
the emersion of a star from behind the moon.
- The apparent displacement, or difference of position, of
an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view. - The apparent difference in position of a body (as the
sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as
seen from some other conventional point, as the earth's center or the
sun.
- chasing - Coming after - In hot pursuit - of Follow - One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. - Vocation; business; profession. - Next after; succeeding; ensuing; as, the assembly was
held on the following day.
- Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial
climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument. - An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as
to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them
parallel to the axis of the earth, and each carrying a graduated
circle, the one for measuring declination, and the other right
ascension, or the hour angle, so that the telescope may be directed,
even in the daytime, to any star or other object whose right ascension
and declination are known. The motion in right ascension is sometimes
communicated by clockwork, so as to keep the object constantly in the
field of the telescope. Called also an equatorial telescope.