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astronom'ical frame' of ref'erence



Physics.
a frame of reference in which the sun or center of mass of the universe is fixed and which does not rotate with respect to the fixed stars.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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