English words for 'plural of solar eclipse'
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- (astronomy) The great circle on the celestial sphere that is the mean apparent path of the sun as viewed from the earth.
- (astronomy) The plane in which this great circle lies.
- (geometry) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
- the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator
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- Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
- (ornithology) A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
- (astronomy) An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
- Obscurity, decline, downfall.
- one celestial body obscures another
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- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- sinking until covered completely with water
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
- Deep engagement in something.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
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- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- hidden and difficult to see
- Esoteric.
- Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
- (medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.
- (medicine): not visible, but chemically detectable.
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- (astronomy) Sun
- (Hinduism) The chief solar deity, one of the Adityas, son of Kasyapa and one of his wives Aditi, of Indra, or of Dyaus Pita (depending by the versions). Portrayed with golden arms and hair, Surya drives through the heaven in his triumphal chariot harnessed by seven horses or one horse with seven heads, which represent the seven colours of the rainbow or the seven chakras.
- A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
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- (astronomy) The area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
- The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
- One of genus Umbrina of drums (family Sciaenidae).
- (mathematics) An element of the umbral calculus.
- (astronomy) The central region of a sunspot.
- (chiefly literary) A shadow.
- One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
- a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light
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- (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse
- complete attention; intense mental effort
- a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged
- the act of wetting something by submerging it
- sinking until covered completely with water
- (mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept of an embedding.
- (art) A creative relationship with one's social and ecological environment as practiced by the Brooklyn Immersionists.
- Deep engagement in something.
- (education) A form of foreign-language teaching where the language is used intensively to teach other subjects to a student.
- The total submerging of a person in water as an act of baptism.
- (astronomy) The disappearance of a celestial body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite.
- (British, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater.
- One's suspension of disbelief while reading, playing a video game, etc. The experience of losing oneself in a fictional world.
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- (astronomy) The area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.
- The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object.
- One of genus Umbrina of drums (family Sciaenidae).
- (mathematics) An element of the umbral calculus.
- (astronomy) The central region of a sunspot.
- (chiefly literary) A shadow.
- One of the family Umbridae of mudminnows.
- a region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light
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noun
- Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
- (ornithology) A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
- (astronomy) An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
- Obscurity, decline, downfall.
- one celestial body obscures another
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- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- hidden and difficult to see
- Esoteric.
- Related to the occult; pertaining to mysticism, magic, or astrology.
- (medicine) Secret; hidden from general knowledge; undetected.
- (medicine): not visible, but chemically detectable.
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- (astronomy) The great circle on the celestial sphere that is the mean apparent path of the sun as viewed from the earth.
- (astronomy) The plane in which this great circle lies.
- (geometry) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
- the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator