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Meaning of "great circles"

Great circles are the largest circles that can be drawn on the surface of a sphere. They divide the sphere into two equal hemispheres and have a circumference equal to the circumference of the sphere. Great circles are used in navigation and astronomy to calculate shortest distances between two points on the surface of a sphere
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Our world is like three great circles.
The great circles are the geodesics of the sphere.
You can draw three great circles.
Great circles are special cases of the concept of a geodesic.
A point of intersection between two great circles.
Great circles corresponding to parallel lines intersect on the equator.
For the sphere the geodesics are great circles.
Great circles in the sky.
On the sphere lines are great circles.
All great circles have two antipodal axis points.
An infinite number of great circles can be drawn on a sphere.
Two great circles always intersect at two polar opposite points.
They are all great circles.
Great circles always follow the shortest path between two points on a sphere.
On a sphere are arcs of great circles.

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This belt is one of the great circles of our astronomical heavenly vault.
Great circles are circles on a sphere whose centres coincide with the centre of the sphere.
Inward from the sphere h are the great circles of damnation.
Any pair of great circles either is the same circle or has two intersection points.
An area on the sphere bounded by arcs of great circles is called a spherical polygon.
Meridians of longitude that cross over the north and south poles are also great circles.
Meridians correspond to sections of great circles passing through the centre of the fovea.
A presumably hematite component antiparallel to AR was recovered at one site using converging great circles.
Reflection planes are displayed as great circles in the appropriate plane around the model.
For Earth equator and all meridians are Great circles.
Gnomonic All great circles are straight lines.
The Funk transform integrates a function along all great circles of the sphere.
So the centres of Great Circles are always at the centre of the earth.
Placidus Instead of using great circles.
The longitudes are great circles connecting the two poles of the Earth.
The Equator and the circles created by the meridians form Great Circles.
A Hoberman sphere typically consists of six great circles corresponding to the edges of an icosidodecahedron.
In spherical geometry, all geodesics are great circles.
The great circles around the Earth.
The intersections of the ecliptic with those great circles provide the house cusps.
Great circles very often make great men, and vice versa.
They are all circles and those that are not great circles are called small circles.
Great circles are often broken into a series of loxodromes, which simplifies navigation.
The Latitude lines are not Great Circles except at the equator.
In spherical trigonometry, angles are defined between great circles.
On plane maps, great circles of the Earth are mostly not shown as straight lines.
On a sphere, the images of geodesics are the great circles.
See Arc length § Arcs of great circles on the Earth.
Ringed mountains of the first order, in the division of great circles.
All lines of Longitude are also Great Circles ( connecting the North and South poles ).
For example, the geodesics on a sphere are great circles.
Great circles have curvature formula 38, so they have zero geodesic curvature, and are therefore geodesics.
Everything begins and ends in great cycles, great circles or spirals.
All great circles intersect each other at two positions 180 ° apart.
On the sphere, the role of straight lines is played by the great circles.

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