Lunar
['luːnə] or ['lunɚ]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to or associated with the moon; 'lunar surface'; 'lunar module' .
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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
(a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.
(a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
(a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
(n.) A lunar distance.
(n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
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Definition
adj. belonging to the moon: measured by the revolutions of the moon: caused by the moon: like the moon—also Lū′nary.—ns. Lū′nacy a kind of madness formerly supposed to be affected by the moon: insanity; Lunā′rian Lū′narist a student of lunar phenomena; Lū′nary the moonwort fern.—adjs. Lū′nāte -d formed like a half-moon: crescent-shaped; Lū′natic affected with lunacy.—n. a person so affected: a madman (De lunatico inquirendo the title of the writ or commission for inquiry into the mental state of an alleged lunatic).—n. Lunā′tion the time between two revolutions of the moon: a lunar month.—adjs. Lū′niform moon-shaped; Lū′nisolar resulting from the united action of the sun and moon: compounded of the revolution of the sun and the moon.—n. Lū′nula a crescent-like appearance esp. the whitish area at the base of the nails.—adjs. Lū′nulate -d (bot.) shaped like a small crescent.—ns. Lū′nule Lū′nulet anything in form like a small crescent; Lū′nulite a small circular fossil coral.—Lunar caustic fused crystals of nitrate of silver applied to ulcers &c.; Lunar cycle=Metonic cycle (q.v.); Lunar month (see Month); Lunar observation an observation of the moon's distance from a star for the purpose of finding the longitude; Lunar rainbow (see Rainbow under Rain); Lunar theory a term employed to denote the a priori deduction of the moon's motions from the principles of gravitation; Lunar year (see Year).
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Examples
- The theory of lunar eclipses will be understood from Fig. 1, where _S_ represents the sun, _E_ the earth, and _M_ the moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hence during a lunar eclipse the moon first enters the penumbra, then is totally eclipsed by the umbra, then emerges through the penumbra again. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Dissolve 5 parts of lunar caustic in 10 parts of spirit of sal ammoniac. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I'll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Is it six calendar or six lunar months? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But with agriculture began the difficult task of squaring the lunar month with the solar year; a task which has left its scars on our calendar to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The pale lunar touches which make beauties of hags lent divinity to this face, already beautiful. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
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