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"Half-moon"
Keywords:
crescent
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moon
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ravelin
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outwork
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gorge
Related Terms:
Gibbous
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Half moon
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First quarter
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Crescent
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Gibbous moon
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Lunate
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Annular eclipse
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Last quarter
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Lunar eclipse
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Eclipse
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Eclipse, solar
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Sunset
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Partial eclipse
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Total solar eclipse
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Sunrise
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Solar eclipse
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Civil twilight
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New moon
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Astronomical twilight
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Eclipse, lunar
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Nautical twilight
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Waning
,
Total eclipse
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Limb
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Occultation
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Prominences
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Phase
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Lunar
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Solar eclipse
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Earthshine
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Full moon
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Waning moon
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Waxing
,
Moiety
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Baily's beads
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Corona
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Superior conjunction
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Dark moon
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Saros cycle
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Syzygy
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Twilight
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Terminator
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Parhelion
,
Dusk
,
Conjunction
,
Zodiacal light
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Shadow
,
Gnomon
,
Sky
The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
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The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
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An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.
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the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
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the time at which the moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated
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californiense
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siosoma
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sparoid
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medialuna
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ovate
A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also medialuna.
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