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lunation

[ loo-ney-shuhn ]

noun

  1. the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.


lunation

/ ːˈԱɪʃə /

noun

  1. another name for synodic month See month
“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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Origin of lunation1

1350–1400; Middle English lunacyon < Medieval Latin ūپō- (stem of ūپō ). See Luna, -ation
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The flower moon, for example, is a Farmer’s Almanac-listed name for May’s lunation associated with spring blooms.

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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.

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He came up with a measure of time called a lunation - 29.530589 earth days, or the period it takes to go around Earth.

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The synodic period is another name for lunation, and its true length is 29 and one-half days, or very accurately 29 d.

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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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