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Noun: true anomaly  troo-u'nó-mu-lee
  1. The angular distance of a point in an orbit past the point of periapsis measured in degrees
    "The astronomer calculated the true anomaly to determine the satellite's position in its orbit"

Derived forms: true anomalies

Type of: angular distance

Encyclopedia: True anomaly