As it moves through its apparent course, the sun draws a curve with the tip of the projected shadow, which is shortest at noon, when pointing due south.
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The use of the word also means " in a direction opposite to the usual ", and " in a direction contrary to the apparent course of the sun ".
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After two hijacked airliners brought down the World Trade Center's twin towers and one heavily damaged the Pentagon U . S . military headquarters, a fourth plane that had turned onto an apparent course toward Washington crashed in Pennsylvania apparently after passengers rose and attacked the hijackers.