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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
/ ːˈԱɪʃə /
noun
- another name for synodic month See month
yvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
The flower moon, for example, is a Farmer’s Almanac-listed name for May’s lunation associated with spring blooms.
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.
He came up with a measure of time called a lunation - 29.530589 earth days, or the period it takes to go around Earth.
The synodic period is another name for lunation, and its true length is 29 and one-half days, or very accurately 29 d.
There can be no doubt that lunation, more especially in tropical climes, influences diseases; but the effects of insolation are every where observable.
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