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What is an obliquity?

What is an obliquity? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation. [from 15th c.]
  2. (astronomy) Axial tilt.
  3. Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality. [from 15th c.]
  4. The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism. [from 17th c.]
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They found the length of the year, and calculated the obliquity of the ecliptic.
It meets the hypothenuse at an obliquity greater than the limiting angle, and is therefore totally reflected.
The obliquity can then strongly increase, until the dissipative effects lead it away from the chaotic zone, for a strong value of the obliquity.
In figure 5, the frequency of precession of the axis of rotation of Venus is traced according to its obliquity.
Abul Wafa determined accurately the obliquity of the ecliptic in 995 A.D. and calculated the variation in the moon's motion.
To obliviate obliquity is to forget all the organs, not just the ear, with their vestibular canals.

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