Word Finder - lunar

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The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.

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• intermedium
• lunar bone
• semilunar

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An observation of a lunar distance, especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.

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Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon); Lunar.

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lunar observations  a lunar eclipse

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• lunarlike
• lunary
• moonish
• moonlike
• moonly
• selenic

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Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.

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(Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.

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Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).

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Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.

Clouds drifted away from a full moon, drenching the patio with soft lunar light.

First time I've seen a total lunar eclipse without clouds.

During the voyage he experimented upon the determination of longitude by lunar distances, and ultimately effected the introduction of the method into navigation (q.v.).

The lunar cycle takes 12 years to complete.

The happy coincidence of a lunar eclipse gives us the 20th of September 331 as the exact day upon which the Macedonian army crossed the Tigris.

Before he was twenty he had afforded a specimen of his powers by an important contribution to the lunar theory.

The year 1787 was rendered further memorable by Laplace's announcement on the 19th of November (Memoirs, 1786), of the dependence of lunar acceleration upon the secular changes in the eccentricity of the earth's orbit.

Each planet had two houses - a solar and a lunar - distributed according to the order of their revolutions.

Positive proof of the high antiquity of the Hindu lunar zodiac is nevertheless afforded by the undoubted fact that the primitive series opened with Krittika (the Pleiades) as the sign of the vernal equinox.

In the carpus the scaphoid and lunar bones are united.

This excess is, however, subject to wide variation, owing to the obliquity of the ecliptic and of the lunar orbit to the equator, and therefore to the horizon.

The stars had been numbered and named at an early date, and we possess tables of lunar longitudes and observations of the phases of Venus.

Bond at the Harvard observatory, De la Rue in England, and Rutherford in New York, produced lunar photographs of remarkable accuracy and beauty.

He compiled the Hakimite Tables of the planets, and observed at Cairo, in 977 and 978, two solar eclipses which, as being the first recorded with scientific accuracy, 4 were made available in fixing the amount of lunar acceleration.

The lunar acceleration, too, obtains ultimate compensation, though only after a vastly protracted term of years.

And this kind of interaction has gone on ever since Flamsteed reluctantly furnished the " places of the moon," which enabled Newton to lay the foundations of lunar theory.

He executed besides a chart and forty drawings of the moon (published at Göttingen in 1881), and calculated lunar tables from a skilful development of Euler's theory, for which a reward of boo() was in 1765 paid to his widow by the British government.

Conceiving the line NN' to be that of the nodes at any time, and the earth and lunar orbit to be moving in the direction of the straight arrows, the earth will be on one side of the ecliptic from M2 to M5, and on the other side from M6 to M 1, intersecting it at the nodes.

The other side of the moon is therefore invisible from the earth, but in consequence of the libration about six-tenths of the lunar surface may be seen at one time or another, while the remaining four-tenths are for ever hidden from our view.

This shows that the side of the moon presented to us is held in position as it were by the earth, from which it also follows that the lunar globe is more or less elliptical, the longer axis being directed toward the earth.

The height of the lunar mountains is a subject of interest.

Euphratean exploration has so far brought to light no traces of ecliptical partition by the moon's diurnal motion, unless, indeed, zodiacal associations be claimed for a set of twenty-eight deprecatory formulae against evil spirits inscribed on a Ninevite tablet.4 The safest general conclusions regarding this disputed subject appear to be that the sieu, distinctively and unvaryingly Chinese, cannot properly be described as divisions of a lunar zodiac, that the nakshatras, though of purely Indian origin, became modified by the successive adoption of Greek and Chinese rectifications and supposed improvements; while the manazil constituted a frankly eclectic system, in which elements from all quarters were combined.

The insurmountable difficulties presented by the lunar theory forced Kepler, after an enormous amount of fruitless labour, to abandon his design of comprehending the whole scheme of the heavens in one great work to be called Hipparchus, and he then threw a portion of his materials into the form of a dialogue intended for the instruction of general readers.

Lastly, in astronomy he is credited by Ptolemy with an explanation of the motion of the planets by a system of epicycles; he also made reseafches in the lunar theory, for which he is said to have been called Epsilon (e).

The Restoration Of The Equinox To Its Former Place In The Year And The Correction Of The Intercalary Period, Were Attended With No Difficulty; But Lilius Had Also To Adapt The Lunar Year To The New Rule Of Intercalation.

He executed besides a chart and forty drawings of the moon (published at Göttingen in 1881), and calculated lunar tables from a skilful development of Euler's theory, for which a reward of boo() was in 1765 paid to his widow by the British government.

Schrdter of Lilienthal produced another profusely illustrated description of lunar topography.

You take the part of a mercenary pilot hired to quash a robotic rebellion on a lunar mining colony.

When thin clouds scud across a bright moon it is often surrounded by a bright disk and faint colored rings, a lunar corona.

The key stones are aligned with major major solar and lunar events including Solstices and Equinoxes.

Measurements of the stones also indicated possible lunar and solstice alignments.

In 2005 and 2006 we are in a major lunar standstill season.

The appearance of the Hale Bopp and Halley 's comets, followed by solar and lunar eclipses, caused an upsurge in popular astronomy.

A lunar filter is good if you like to look at the moon.

Lunar necklaces also were popular in the 1970s.

Samsung Gravity SMART comes in cool colors such as Berry Red, Sapphire Blue, and Lunar Gray.

A full-term pregnancy is considered to be 280 days, nine calendar months or ten lunar months calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period.

Among the many old wives' tales and legends, proponents consider the Chinese Lunar pregnancy calendar to be one of the more accurate means of unscientific sex prediction.

The numbers down the left side of the chart represents the mother's lunar age at the time she conceived.

The months across the top of the chart represent the lunar month when the mother conceived.

Part of the chart's use includes converting your age and the month in which you are conceiving from solar months to lunar.

A lunar month is the time it takes to pass from one full moon to the next - roughly 29.5 days.

Your lunar age is also calculated differently, because you are thought to be one year old at the time of your birth according to the Chinese calendar.

To determine your Chinese age, subtract the year in which you were born from the current year (or the year in which you conceived), then add one to the number - this is your lunar age, plus or minus a few days for the shorter month length.

To determine the lunar month, take a look at a Chinese calendar for that year.

Proponents believe that the Chinese lunar birth calendar is about 99 percent accurate.

In addition to the possibility of using a Chinese lunar calendar to predict the sex of a baby once a woman becomes pregnant, some women use the calendar or Chinese birth chart to possibly increase their odds of conceiving a boy or a girl.

The Chinese Lunar Pregnancy Calendar is an ancient document that contains a chart listing which gender a woman will conceive in a given month.

It's based on the lunar calendar, which generally gives women a higher age than the eastern calendar.

For example, a woman who is 34 might be 36 on the lunar chart.