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lunation
[ loo-ney-shuhn ]
noun
- the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
lunation
/ luːˈneɪʃən /
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In fact, the year and the lunation are to one another very nearly in the proportion of 235 to 19.
Now that lunation having commenced on the 3rd of December, and consisting of thirty days, will end on the 1st of January.
The calendar is constructed on the assumptions that the mean lunation is 29 days 12 hours 44 min.
So that in both these cases fever commenced in half a lunation after the contagion was received.
The fever and eruption in the distinct kind take up another quarter of a lunation, and the maturation another quarter.
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