2. Verb. (third-person singular of eclipse) ¹
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Definition of Eclipses
1. eclipsis [n] - See also: eclipsis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclipses
Literary usage of Eclipses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"It is easy to solar eclipses acts in the same direction as the acceleration of
the moon's mean mction, viz., it throws the place of observation to from ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This is clearly a favourable case for the occurrence of as many eclipses as ...
[f all three seasons could be of the class containing three eclipses, ..."
3. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"eclipses of the sun and moon must from very early times have excited great ...
That eclipses of the sun only take place at new moon, and those of the moon ..."
4. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1906)
"The conclusion is that there will be, at the leant, only two eclipses in a year,
both of the sun; or, at the most, six eclipses, four of the sun and two of ..."
5. The Observatory (1907)
"regards many of the eclipses in the ' Almagest.,' I suspect that he was in pretty
much the ... Three of the eclipses Ptolemy may have observed himself, ..."
6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"On the Quantity of (he Acceleration of the Moon's Mean Motion, as indicated by
the Records of certain Ancient eclipses. By the Rev. ..."
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