Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ecliptic

1 sense of ecliptic

Sense 1
ecliptic -- (the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator; "all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic")
       => great circle -- (a circular line on the surface of a sphere formed by intersecting it with a plane passing through the center)