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lunation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lunar month, moon, synodic month |
| Type of | month |
Examples of lunation
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Today's lunation meanwhile helps you administrate the world into your preferred shape.
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As Venus is pivotal in this lunation, so are pleasure, people and parties.
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The duration of the lunation, in More Mathematical Astronomy Morsels.
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The Maya counted the number of days in the current lunation.
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The Full Moon in Aries on Wednesday, April 10 is a fiery lunation that gives everyone the right to be selfish for a spell.
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The Maya counted the lunation in a cycle of six, numbered zero through 5. Each one was ruled by one of the six Lunar Deities.
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The length of the lunar month is 29.53059 days so if you count the number of days in a lunation it will be either 29 or 30 days.
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This means that it is a lunation later than Jewish Passover in two years out of nineteen, years 8 and 19 of the Christian cycle.
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The supplementary series is optional and contains lunar data, for example, the age of the moon on the day and the calculated length of current lunation.
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- Lunar month: the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
- (lunate) crescent(a): resembling the new moon in shape
- Lunation is the mean time for one lunar phase cycle (i.e., the synodic period of the Moon). It is on average 29.530589 days, or 29 days 12 hrs 44 mins & 3 secs. The length of this cycle is linked to many phenomena in nature, such as .
- Lunate is a term meaning crescent or moon-shaped. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed from a stone tool during the process of pressure flaking.
- A month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase. On average, the number of days between Full Moons is about 29.5306 days. The actual number of days may differ from the average number by more than a half day. ...
- (lunate) A small stone artifact, probably an arrowhead, with a blunt straight edge and a sharpened, crescent-shaped back, especially characteristic of the Mesolithic Period; Shaped like a crescent
- (Lunate) Luna is Latin for moon and lunate is crescent shaped as is the bone. A lunatic was at one time used to describe a person with an illness thought to be influenced by the phases of the moon. Epilepsy was one such disorder.
- (lunate) adjective, Latin luna = moon, hence, crescentic.
- New Moon; Moon conjunct Sun.
