fixed star oor Xhosa

fixed star

naamwoord

(astronomy) Any star that is so distant that its movement, relative to others, is not perceptible; in practice, any star except the Sun

Vertalings in die woordeboek Engels - Xhosa

ilanga

Any star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.

voorbeelde

Acceleration of Fixed Stars.
Unyuso santya kwinkwenkwezi ezikhethiweyo

Progressive earliness of fixed star transits as compared with Sun's transits.
Inkqubela yobanjo lwexesha ziinkwenkwezi ezikhethiweyo lokuhanjiswa kweempahla xa luthelekiswa nohanjiso lweempahla ngelanga

By the middle of the sixteenth century, tables of the celestial positions of the more prominent fixed stars had been added.
Phakathi kwinkulungwane yeshumi elinesithandathu, izalathiso zokuma kwamazulu zeenkwenkwezi ezizinzisiweyo zasele zongeziwe.

This was concerned with the influences exerted at the time of birth by the fixed stars, as well as the Sun, Moon and five planets. . . .
Yona yayiphathelele impembelelo yeenkwenkwezi ezazibonakala zingahambi, kwakunye neyeLanga, iNyanga nezijikelezi-langa ezintlanu ezazisiba nayo ngexesha lokuzalwa. . . .

A lunar event like an eclipse, the occultation of a star, or its distance measured from the sun or from a fixed star could be timed simultaneously in two places.
Isiganeko senyanga esifana nomnyama, ukusithela kwenkwenkwezi okanye umgama wayo ulinganiswe ukusuka elangeni okanye kwinkwenkwezi emileyo, ezo ziganeko bezikwazi ukujongwa kwiindawo ezimbini ngaxeshanye.

When the rotating plate is set to the right time and date, the bearings and altitudes of the fixed stars read off on the under plate will be correct, and vice versa.
Xa ijikeleza ipleyiti ibekelwa ixesha elifanelekileyo nosuku, nokunxulumana komthwalo nomphakamo ofakelweyo kwinkwenkwezi.

This was because of its many marginal scales, its set of engraved plates for different latitudes and horizons, and its ornamental 'rete' or pierced metalwork which carried the fixed stars and the celestial circles.
Kungenxa yesikali esasingaphezulu, sepleyiti ezikroliweyo ezifanayo kububanzi nokuthi tyaba ngkwahlukeneyo nakwimifanekiso ethe tyaba okanye iqhekeza lesinyithi elithwele inkwenkwezi efakelweyo nesangqa esibhaka-bhakeni.

The Encyclopædia Britannica notes that astrology is a “type of divination that consists in forecasting earthly and human events by means of observing and interpreting the fixed stars, the Sun, the Moon, and the planets.”
IEncyclopædia Britannica ithi ukuvumisa ngeenkwenkwezi “luhlobo lokuvumisa oluquka ukuxela kusengaphambili iziganeko zasemhlabeni nezabantu ngokujonga nokuchaza iinkwenkwezi, iLanga, iNyanga nezijikelezi-langa.”

For the medieval sailor, the lodestar, Pole Star or Stella Maris stood fixed and motionless at the pommel of the sky while all else wheeled around it.
Ababantu babehamba ngenqanawa, inkwenkwezi ezikhokele inqanawa, ipali yenkwenkwezi okanye uStella Maris wema ixesha elide nentshukumo neqhubi lesabile yesibhakabhaka.

Regardless of what government is in power, Jehovah’s Witnesses keep their eye simple and firmly fixed on God’s Kingdom, which shines like a star in the heavens.
Kungakhathaliseki ukuba kuphethe wuphi urhulumente, amaNgqina kaYehova agcina iliso lawo lingenakumbi yaye litsoliswe nzo kuBukumkani bukaThixo, obukhanya njengenkwenkwezi emazulwini.

Is called in Egyptian Enish-go-on-dosh; this is one of the governing planets also, and is said by the Egyptians to be the Sun, and to borrow its light from Kolob through the medium of Kae-e-vanrash, which is the grand Key, or, in other words, the governing power, which governs fifteen other fixed planets or stars, as also Floeese or the Moon, the Earth and the Sun in their annual revolutions.
Ithiywe iEnish-go-on-dosh yaseYiputa; le kanjalo yenye yeeplanethi ezilawulayo, kwaye kuthiwa ngamaYiputa liLanga, kwaye iboleka ukukhanya kwayo kuKolob ngendlela kaKae-e-vanrash, osisiTshixo esikhulu, okanye, ngamanye amazwi, amandla okulawula, alawula ezinye iiplanethi ezizinzileyo ezilishumi elinesihlanu okanye iinkwenkwezi, njengokunjalo uFloeese okanye iNyanga, uMhlaba neLanga kwimijikelezo yazo yonyaka.

Although the stars could be huge distances from one another, their relative positions remain fixed from earth’s perspective.
Nangona iinkwenkwezi zinokuba mgama gqitha ukusuka kwenye ukuya kwenye, zibonakala zikumgama olinganayo xa sizijonga sisemhlabeni.