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gibbous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gibbose |
gibbous::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | crookback, crookbacked, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
| Derivation | gibbosity, gibbousness |
Examples of gibbous
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This year, the gibbous moon will hide most of the fainter meteors in its glare.
From the thenewstribune.com
If Venus is beyond the Sun, the phase of Venus must always be gibbous or full.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Unfortunately a bright waning gibbous moon will interfere with this year's display.
From the post-gazette.com
When more than half of the disc is illuminated, it's called a gibbous moon.
From the post-gazette.com
The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone.
From the time.com
The moon will wane from a bright gibbous to thin crescent this week.
From the post-gazette.com
Jupiter sits just to the right of a very full gibbous moon in the southeast Tuesday evening.
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Stargazers can observe its crescent grow from half to gibbous phase.
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The gibbous moon appears to grow larger each night until we see the full sunlit face of the moon.
From the post-gazette.com
- Crookback: characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column
- (used of the moon) more than half full
- (gibbousness) bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"
- A lunar phase or phase of the moon is the appearance of the illuminated portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on Earth. The lunar phases vary cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing relative positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun. ...
- Characterized by convexity; protuberant; Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter; Humpbacked
- The lunar phase when the moon is more than half dark, but less than fully illuminated.
- Convex, rounded, protuberant; exceeding a semi-circle but less than a circle
- From a word meaning 'fat' or 'rounded', this refers to seeing a moon or planet more than half lit by the Sun. [See: Gibbous Phase. Also see: Appendix A-Lunar Orbit and Phases.]
- Protuberant; swelling out into a pouch or sac.
