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upper culmination comparison table

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culmination location dependent periodic celestial event Passage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian. More precisely, culmination is the passage through the point of greatest altitude in the diurnal path. meridian passage

upper culmination culmination Passage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian. The crossing closer to the observer's zenith. culmination above pole

Subject	is an instance of	is a kind of	has definition	has synonym
culmination		location dependent periodic celestial event	Passage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian. More precisely, culmination is the passage through the point of greatest altitude in the diurnal path.	meridian passage
upper culmination	culmination		Passage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian. The crossing closer to the observer's zenith.	culmination above pole

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