ecliptic

See also: eclíptic

English

Alternative forms

• ecliptick (obsolete)

Etymology

So named because an eclipse can occur only when the Moon lies on this plane.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈklɪp.tɪk/

Noun

ecliptic (plural ecliptics)

1. (astronomy) The apparent annual path of the Sun in the sky. More accurately, it is the intersection of the celestial sphere with the plane of the ecliptic, which is the geometric plane containing the mean orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
2. (geometry) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.

Translations

Earth's orbital plane

• Afrikaans: sonnebaan
• Albanian: ekliptikë
• Arabic: مَسار الشَّمْسِ‎ m (masār aš-šamsi)
• Armenian: խավարածիր (hy) (xavaracir)
• Azerbaijani: ekliptika
• Basque: ekliptika
• Belarusian: экліптыка f (ekliptyka)
• Bulgarian: еклиптика f (ekliptika)
• Catalan: eclíptica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃道 (zh)

• Czech: ekliptika (cs) f
• Danish: ekliptika c
• Dutch: ecliptica (nl) f, schijnbare (nl) zonneweg (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekliptiko
• Estonian: ekliptika
• Finnish: ekliptika (fi)
• French: écliptique (fr) m
• Galician: eclíptica (gl) f
• Georgian: ეკლიპტიკა (eḳliṗṭiḳa)
• German: Ekliptik (de) f
• Greek: εκλειπτική (el) f (ekleiptikí)
• Hebrew: מישור המילקה‎ (he) m (mishór hamílke)
• Hindi: क्रांतिवृत्त (hi) (krāntivŕtt), सूर्यपथ (sūryapath)
• Hungarian: ekliptika
• Icelandic: sólbaugur m
• Ido: ekliptiko (io)
• Indonesian: ekliptika (id)
• Irish: éiclipteach m

• Italian: eclittica (it) f
• Japanese: 黄道 (ja) (こうどう, kōdō)
• Kazakh: эклиптика (éklïptïka)
• Korean: 황도 (黄道, hwangdo)
• Latvian: ekliptika f
• Lithuanian: ekliptika f
• Macedonian: еклиптика f (ekliptika)
• Malay: te pito o Rangi, ekliptik
• Marathi: क्रांतिवृत्त (krāntivrutt)
• Norwegian: ekliptikken
• Persian: دایرةالبروج‎ (dayertalboruj)
• Polish: ekliptyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: eclíptica (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸੂਰਜੀ ਪੰਧ (sūrjī pandh)
• Romanian: ecliptică (ro) f
• Russian: экли́птика (ru) f (eklíptika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еклиптика f

  Roman: ekliptika (sh) f

• Slovak: ekliptika f
• Slovene: ekliptika f
• Spanish: eclíptica (es) f
• Swedish: ekliptika (sv) c
• Tagalog: guhitlaw
• Thai: สุริยวิถี (sù-rí-yɔɔ-wí-tíi)
• Turkish: tutulum (tr), ekliptik (tr)
• Ukrainian: еклі́птика f (eklíptyka)
• Vietnamese: hoàng đạo (vi)

Adjective

ecliptic (not comparable)

1. Relating to an eclipse or the ecliptic.