Circumpolar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Located or found in one of the Polar Regions.
  • adj. Astronomy Denoting a star that from a given observer's latitude does not go below the horizon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Located or found throughout a polar region.
  • adj. Of a celestial body, continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Surrounding one of the poles of the earth or of the heavens: as, a circumpolar sea; circumpolar stars.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of a celestial body) continually visible above the horizon during the entire 360 degrees of daily travel
  • adj. located or found throughout a polar region
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    seeable    visible    polar   
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