Relating to the rising or setting of a star at sunrise or sunset; occurring at the extremity or boundary of a time period.
From Greek akron (peak) combined with the -ical suffix, an alternate form of acronic used in astronomical terminology.
Ancient astronomers called a star's 'acronical rising' when it appeared at the horizon opposite the sun—they were mapping the sky using these poetic moment-based terms.
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