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syzygy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of syzygy
syzygy
A great word for Scrabble, syzygy describes this arrangement.
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Syzygy refers to the split between male and female.
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An eclipse is a type of syzygy.
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It is technically called a perigee-syzygy, which makes me really glad it didn't happen in the early 1970s, or else instead of a Twitter hashtag it would have been a concept album by Yes.
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- The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
- Syzygy /u02C8su026Azu1D7Bdu0292i/ may refer to:
- "Syzygy" is a 1996 episode of The X-Files television series. It was the thirteenth episode broadcast in the show's third season. "Syzygy" is about Mulder and Scully investigating murders of high school students in a small town where everyone - and they as well - are acting strangely.
- Syzygys is a band composed of duo Hitomi Shimizu on organ and Hiromi Nishida on violin. They play "microtonal pop music" , specifically just intonation in the form of Harry Partch's 43-tone scale.
- A kind of unity, namely an alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse; An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and ...
- A "yoking together" often applied in astrology to conjunctions and oppositions. In calculating tables for tides of the ocean, syzygy refers to New or Full Moons occurring near the Moon's Node.
- The alignment of any three celestial bodies. Planets are at syzygy when they are at opposition or conjunction (aligned with Sun and Earth).
- The points in the moon's orbit about the earth at which the moon is new or full.
- Using different types of feet (e.g., iambic and trochaic) in the same verse.
