Definition of Parhelia. Meaning of Parhelia. Synonyms of Parhelia

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Definition of Parhelia

Parhelia
Parhelion Par*hel"ion, n.; pl. Parhelia. [L. parelion, Gr. ?, ?; ? beside + ? the sun.] A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

Meaning of Parhelia from wikipedia

- Look up parhelia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Parhelia may refer to: Parhelia (phenomenon), the scientific name for sun dogs Matrox Parhelia, a series...
- The Matrox Parhelia-512 is a graphics processing unit (GPU) released by Matrox in 2002. It has full support for DirectX 8.1 and incorporates several DirectX...
- A sun dog (or sundog) or mock sun, also called a parhelion (plural parhelia) in atmospheric science, is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that consists...
- include the glory and the rainbow. While Aristotle had mentioned halos and parhelia, in antiquity, the first European descriptions of complex displays were...
- are the Liljequist parhelia, the 90° parhelia (likely unobservable), the second order 90° parhelia (unobservable), the 22° parhelia and more. Artificial...
- (plural: 120° parhelia) is a relatively rare halo, an optical phenomenon occasionally appearing along with very bright sun dogs (also called parhelia) when ice...
- interpretation suggests the wolves may be intended to describe the phenomenon of parhelia and paraselenae or Sun dogs and Moon dogs, as these are called 'sun-wolf'...
- vanishes. The parhelia are caused by light rays p****ing through oriented plate crystals. Like the 120° parhelia, the Liljequist parhelia display a white-bluish...
- 22° solar halo with parhelia and lower tangent arc...
- Flanking the anthelion on the parhelic circle are two 120° parhelia (and two Liljequist parhelia) caused by plate crystals. The Tricker and diffuse arcs...