What's the difference between celestial and meridian?

Celestial


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
  • (n.) A native of China.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
  • (2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
  • (3) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
  • (4) In contrast, it becomes more than 70% of axial length in Chinese Black Moors and Celestials.
  • (5) The US space agency's Opportunity rover has clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, according to Nasa .
  • (6) The Celestial goldfish is considered to be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
  • (7) The term originated on forums for discussing the game Kerbal Space Program, a gruellingly difficult simulation which tasks players with building spaceships and getting them to orbit (and, eventually, landing on other celestial bodies).
  • (8) And it allowed us to add to those celestial bodies too, heralding the space age.
  • (9) The surrounding hills are relatively low, and a great dome of sky hangs over Brodgar, perfect for watching the setting and rising of the sun, moon and other celestial objects.
  • (10) There was talk, too, of Serbian history, and its people's long and "celestial" struggle.
  • (11) We’ve been looking at Stonehenge from a modern, earth-bound perspective.” “All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth,” he went on.
  • (12) Air, representing ultrasonic energy as a celestial entity, became bird-god, Red-bird.
  • (13) His voice and acoustic guitar were complemented by what seemed like a celestial dawn chorus of birds and I thought he must be singing to us from another dimension.
  • (14) In a celestial touch typical of Soleri’s designs, the area behind the stage is fitted with reclining steps, angled upwards for gazing at the stars.
  • (15) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
  • (16) Their standards are high but here they met opponents who produced celestial football.
  • (17) They weren’t symbols of celestial bodies but forces for permanence on earth.
  • (18) Since similar goldfish do not show these changes, however, the Celestial goldfish may be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
  • (19) That work prompted researchers to test the idea by reconstructing celestial impacts in the laboratory.
  • (20) "If I could buy one piece, I'd buy the Celestial Bonnet, the five rings light installation by Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans," says Caroline Rush.

Meridian


Definition:

  • (a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
  • (a.) Midday; noon.
  • (a.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
  • (a.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
  • (a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The relations between meridian with peripheral nervous and analgesic mechanism had been explored.
  • (2) In the background examinations (and for the well-adapting subjects in examinations made after meridian crossing in flight), the blood pressure, heart rate, and capillaroscopic picture were recorded during 3 days 5 times a day.
  • (3) Thus, the 2 sides of the CVP meridian have different morphogenetic properties and such differences are determinative in the asymmetrical fine-positioning of the CVP.
  • (4) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
  • (5) The EWRGP group showed a mean flattening in corneal curvature of 0.11 and 0.15 mm in the flattest and steepest corneal meridians, respectively.
  • (6) Now, following parental objections, the school board in the Meridian district in Idaho has voted to remove it from the high-school supplemental reading list, where it has been used since 2010, reported local paper the Idaho Statesman.
  • (7) The distribution of response intensities from one meridian to another is adequately described by a sine wave function.
  • (8) While the diameter of the red rod outer segments varies with their location along the vertical meridian of the retina, the incisure number also changes similarly.
  • (9) The multimedia file server manager station is built around a PC-AT compatible with a Northern Telecom Meridian SL-1ST digital PBX and a Meridian Mail digital voice messaging system.
  • (10) A right hemispatial field advantage emerged, as well as an advantage for targets above as compared to below the horizontal meridian.
  • (11) The best correlation was established between the seroimmune response and the activity of the acupuncture points on meridians X and I (a positive correlation) and on meridians III, VIII and XI (a negative correlation).
  • (12) The results are in agreement with data on visual callosal connections in animals and confirm previous psychophysical findings (Berardi & Fiorentini, 1987) indicating the particular properties of the interhemispheric cross-talk between symmetric regions of the visual field astride the vertical meridian in man.
  • (13) There were no inhibitory after-effects when the two stimuli appeared on opposite sides of the vertical or horizontal meridian.
  • (14) It was demonstrated that the calcium ion concentration was significant higher than that in the location of non-meridian and non-acupoint.
  • (15) Simple onset response time (RT) experiments, previously shown to exhibit binocular summation effects for white stimuli along the horizontal meridian, were performed for red and green stimuli along 5 oblique meridians.
  • (16) Most neurons in the inferior temporal cortex of the rhesus monkeys have visual receptive fields that extend across the vertical meridian well into both the contralateral and ipsilateral visual half-fields.
  • (17) This report evaluates the effect of meridian acupuncture treatment on trigeminal neuralgia.
  • (18) Current software displays include a true topographic map, a spherical subtraction map in both relative and absolute scales, and a meridian analysis that is adapted to display refractive photoablative surgery.
  • (19) It's also identified that the thermography with the advantages of straight-forward, objective and simple fitted to be used in the research of acupuncture and meridians.
  • (20) Using the "Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Imaging Technique", the author has been able to accurately localize meridians and acupuncture points that correspond to specific internal organs and has found that most general patterns of meridians and the number of acupuncture points on each of the meridians of specific internal organs of the 12 main internal organs described in the literature of ancient Chinese medicine, are more or less correct, with the exception of some variations and inaccuracies.