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Umbriel

American  
[uhm-bree-el] / ˈʌm briˌɛl /

noun

Astronomy.
  1. a moon of the planet Uranus.


Umbriel British  
/ ˈʌmbrɪəl /

noun

  1. one of the main satellites of Uranus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Only Umbriel, 740 miles in diameter and covered with overlapping meteorite craters but with few other features, seems to have been largely unaffected by Uranian gravity--for reasons scientists cannot explain.

From Time Magazine Archive

In fine, they each seemed saturate with the spirit of the Gnome king, Umbriel, in the drama, when he ——‘stalked abroad Urging the wolf to tear the buffalo.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 Volume 23, Number 6 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

The four satellites bear the names of Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon.

From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

With the same instrument, he further detected, on the 19th of September 1848, Hyperion, the seventh of Saturn’s attendants, and, on the 24th of October 1851, Ariel and Umbriel, the interior moons of Uranus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

She carried gold and precious stones—and more important yet, women being furloughed home after forced labor in the mines of Soviet Umbriel.

From The Peacemaker by Coppel, Alfred

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