lunation
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lunation
1350–1400; Middle English lunacyon < Medieval Latin lūnātiōn- (stem of lūnātiō ). See Luna, -ation
Vocabulary lists containing lunation
Space Science (Astronomy) - Middle School
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The Moon - Middle School
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Space Science (Astronomy) - High School
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Example Sentences
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The flower moon, for example, is a Farmer’s Almanac-listed name for May’s lunation associated with spring blooms.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023
In 2020, Melan beamed into D.C.’s music scene with her first single, “Full Moon,” a twinkling lullaby that doubles as a young girl’s coming home to self and a sleepy ode to another lunation.
From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022
At intervals of a double lunation, equal to fifty-nine days, one and one-half hours, the terminator goes very nearly through the same objects, so that the circumstances of illumination are comparable.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
In the inoculated small-pox the fever generally commences on the seventh day, or after a quarter of a lunation; and on this circumstance probably depends the greater mildness of the latter.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
In fact, the year and the lunation are to one another very nearly in the proportion of 235 to 19.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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