true anomaly

American  

noun

Astronomy.

1. the anomaly of a planet; its angular distance from perihelion or aphelion.

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Example Sentences

The reaction of audiences, who were floored and almost blindsided by the sheer passion of Joplin, illustrates what a true anomaly she was in a rock world populated almost entirely of men.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2015

Lightning Rods is therefore that true anomaly in fiction: a novel that works beautifully despite having no real characters, no real conflict, no real story.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2014

Its amount is the correction which must be applied positively or negatively to the mean anomaly in order to obtain the true anomaly.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

On the moon’s true anomaly at the time.

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Bassnett, Thomas