| polar distance | |
| —n | |
| Also called: codeclination the angular distance of a star, planet, etc, from the celestial pole; the complement of the declination | |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |