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Lunation

noun
1.
The period between successive new moons (29.531 days).  Synonyms: lunar month, moon, synodic month.





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"Lunation" Quotes from Famous Books



... of intermittents, which are undisturbed by medicines, return at regular solar periods, and others at lunar ones; which may, probably, be owing to the difference of the periods of those external circumstances of cold, inanition, or lunation, which immediately ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin
... Sabbath offering, determined by the predominance of Saturn; the offering of the new moon, depending on the motions of the moon; and lastly, the Paschal sacrifice, depending on the combined movements of the sun and moon—made, in fact, during the lunation following the sun's ascending passage of the equator at ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor


Words linked to "Lunation" :   synodic month, month, lunar year, moon


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