Definition of Eclipsing

1. Verb. (present participle of eclipse) ¹

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Definition of Eclipsing

1. eclipse [v] - See also: eclipse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eclipsing

eclectics
eclection
eclectism
eclegm
eclegms
eclesiastical
eclipsable
eclipse
eclipse blindness
eclipse period
eclipse phase
eclipsed
eclipser
eclipsers
eclipses
eclipsing (current term)
eclipsing binary
eclipsis
eclipsises
ecliptic
ecliptical
ecliptick
ecliptics
eclog
eclogite
eclogites
eclogitic
eclogitized
eclogs
eclogue

Literary usage of Eclipsing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1915)
"A large part of our researches at Princeton has for some time been the observational and theoretical study of eclipsing variables. ..."

2. The Binary Stars by Robert Grant Aitken (1918)
"CHAPTER VII eclipsing BINARY STARS We have seen that one of the first binary systems to be discovered with the spectrograph was Algol (/3 Persei), ..."

3. A Grammar of the Irish Language: Pub. for the Use of the Senior Classes in by John O'Donovan (1845)
"In the ancient Irish manuscripts the eclipsing consonant is but seldom prefixed, from which some grammarians have inferred that the ancients pronounced the ..."

4. Italian Sights and Papal Principles: Seen Through American Spectacles by James Jackson Jarves (1856)
"... for Luca Pitti, an enemy of the Medici, desirous of eclipsing their wealth and power by giving an imposing token of his own. ..."

5. Problems in Astrophysics by Agnes Mary Clerke (1903)
"eclipsing STARS. STELLAR eclipses are necessarily included among the phenomena of spectroscopic binaries. For the planes of a proportion of these systems ..."

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