Associations to the word «Parhelion»

Wiktionary

PARHELION, noun. A bright spot in the sky due to the refraction of the sun’s image by ice crystals.
PARHELION, noun. A reflection or image

Dictionary definition

PARHELION, noun. A bright spot on the parhelic circle; caused by diffraction by ice crystals; "two or more parhelia are usually seen at once".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope