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Meaning of HELIAC

Pronunciation:  'heelee`ak

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)"
 
 Synonyms: heliacal
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\He"li*ac\, a.
Heliacal.

 

 

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