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Definition of Translunar
1. Adjective. Situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth. "Who can imagine a translunary visitor in Times Square?"
2. Adjective. Unworldly or ethereal. "High translunary dreams"
Definition of Translunar
1. Adjective. (context: of a spaceflight or trajectory) towards the Moon from the Earth or another planet ¹
2. Adjective. situated beyond the Moon, or its orbit; unworldly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Translunar
Literary usage of Translunar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"Briefly, the Saturn V was to place a spacecraft into a translunar trajectory,
enable a soft landing on the moon with a manned payload, and return to Earth. ..."
2. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"... Taurus-Littrow was not accessible by translunar injection (departure of the
spacecraft and S-IVB from the earth parking orbit) over the Pacific Ocean. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"Not Milton's keen, translunar music thine ; human view; Not Shelley's flush of
rose on peaks divine ; Not Shakespeare's cloudless, boundless Nor yet the ..."
4. Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys (1915)
"... of these things that one finally thinks, as one comes to follow him, but of
things more subtle, more remote, more translunar, and far more imaginative. ..."
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