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English

  1. 🔊 ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk
  2. 🔊 (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky
    “one hour of right ascension equals fifteen degrees”
  3. 🔊 an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores

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