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lune

a lune bounded by the arcs
and

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n.

A crescent-shaped portion of a plane or sphere bounded by two arcs of circles.

[Latin lūna, moon.]


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time The ‘day’ of which precisely 30 span the mean interval between consecutive new moons, = 1/30 synodic month, = 85 048.1~ s (23.624 4~ h, 0.984 353~ d) currently, but is slowly increasing.

lunour……59.1~ min
24lune…23.6~ h
30synodic month29.6~ d

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A tapering wedge-shaped unit forming the covering of a hemisphere.

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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