conjunctions
- plural of conjunction.
Example Sentences
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Conjunctions occur when one planet passes another as both orbits the Sun.
From Washington Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Conjunctions occur frequently in our solar system because "the planets orbit around the Sun in approximately the same plane - the ecliptic plane - and thus trace similar paths across our sky", according to Nasa.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2023
Conjunctions of a few planets are fairly common and occur every few years or so, but all five planets line up only once every two decades.
From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022
The demise of Conjunctions follows last fall’s news that another top literary publication, The Believer, would close this year.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 9, 2022
But I have not yet taken her in all the kinds of situations of the Apogees and Perigees which happen, with the Conjunctions and Quadratures.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
