eclipse : Idioms & Phrases

• noun only a thin outer disk of the sun can be seen
  

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• (Astron.), an eclipse of the sun in which the moon at the middle of the eclipse conceals the central part of the sun's disk, leaving a complete ring of light around the border.

Webster 1913

• a priod of about 6,586 days, the time of revolution of the moon's node; called Saros by the Chaldeans.

Webster 1913

• noun the earth interrupts light shining on the moon
  

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• noun an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured
  

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• noun the moon interrupts light from the sun
  

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• noun an eclipse as seen from a place where the eclipsed body is completely obscured
  

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