periastral
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editperiastral (not comparable)
- (archaic, astronomy) Moving among or around the stars.
- 1872, R. A. Proctor, Essays on Astronomy:
- comets in periastral passage
- Of or pertaining to the periastron
References
edit- “periastral”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.