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Occultation

noun
1.
One celestial body obscures another.  Synonym: eclipse.





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"Occultation" Quotes from Famous Books



... you take in sidereal astronomy, of which so little is yet known, I trust it will not be an intrusion to tell you of a new, extraordinary, and very unexpected fact, in the complete occultation of one "fixed" star by another, under circumstances which admit of ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville


Words linked to "Occultation" :   egress, lunar eclipse, ingress, immersion, emersion, interruption, total eclipse, partial eclipse, break, solar eclipse


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