Clavius

British  

/ ˈkleɪvɪəs /

noun

1. one of the largest of the craters on the moon, about 230 kilometres (145 miles) in diameter, whose walls have peaks up to 5700 metres (19 000 feet) above the floor. It lies in the SE quadrant

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Example Sentences

When Æon finally gets to the literal bottom of Goodchild’s plan, penetrating his secret bunker inside Clavius’ body, she scoffs: “I thought you had an operation here. I thought you were getting some work done. Where is the smoke-filled room? Where are the sleazy characters?”

From Slate

A couple of years ago, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy detected water molecules in the Clavius Crater, one of the largest lunar craters visible from Earth.

From Seattle Times

If Clavius was still insisting on it fifty-five years later, it was not because it was contentious; it was simply that he was providing a commentary for Sacrobosco’s Sphere, which was still the textbook in every university.

From Literature

Clavius was really arguing with the dead, not the living.

From Literature

No textbook emerged capable of replacing Sacrobosco, Peuerbach and Clavius for the simple reason that no new consensus was established on the question of how the universe was organized until the eventual triumph of Newtonianism well into the eighteenth century—by which point the vernacular languages had replaced Latin, so no textbook could hope to have the international presence that they had had.

From Literature