lunar interval

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• lunar — LUNÁR, Ă, lunari, e, adj. 1. Referitor la intervalul de timp de o lună (II); (şi adv.) care se produce sau apare o dată pe lună; mensual. 2. (Rar) Propriu lunii (I), de lună, ca luna (de luminos, de feeric etc.). – Din fr. lunaire, lat. lunaris.… …   Dicționar Român

• Lunar distance — Distance Dis tance, n. [F. distance, L. distantia.] 1. The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place. [1913 Webster] Every particle …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lunar day — Day Day (d[=a]), n. [OE. day, dai, dei, AS. d[ae]g; akin to OS., D., Dan., & Sw. dag, G. tag, Icel. dagr, Goth. dags; cf. Skr. dah (for dhagh ?) to burn. [root]69. Cf. {Dawn}.] 1. The time of light, or interval between one night and the next; the …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lunar — adj. 1 of, relating to, or determined by the moon. 2 concerned with travel to the moon and related research. 3 (of light, glory, etc.) pale, feeble. 4 crescent shaped, lunate. 5 of or containing silver (from alchemists use of luna (= moon) for… …   Useful english dictionary

• Lunar rainbow — Rainbow Rain bow (r[=a]n b[=o] ), n. [AS. regenboga, akin to G. regenbogen. See {Rain}, and {Bow} anything bent.] A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lunar day — in describing tides, the time of rotation of the Earth with respect to the moon, or the interval between two successive upper transits of the moon over the meridian of a place. The mean lunar day is approximately 24.84 solar hours in length. Also …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• lunar day — noun the interval between two successive crossings of the meridian by the moon (roughly 24 hours and 50 minutes) …   English new terms dictionary

• lunar month —    , lunation    names for the average interval between two successive new moons, a unitof time equal to 29.530 59 days. See month1 …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• Thai lunar calendar — The Thai lunar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ Patitin Chantarakati) (literally, Against the Sun Moon Ways ) is Thailand s version of the lunisolar Buddhist calendar used in the southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Laos and Burma. Based on the… …   Wikipedia

• lunitidal interval — noun interval between the moon s transit of a particular meridian and the next high tide at that meridian • Hypernyms: ↑time interval, ↑interval * * * “+ noun : the interval between the transit of the moon and the time of the lunar high tide next …   Useful english dictionary

• lunitidal interval — n. the interval by which the lunar high tide lags behind the transit of the moon …   English World dictionary