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lunar
/ˈlunɚ/
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What does lunar mean?
adjective
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).
- Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.
- Extremely high.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
- Alternative letter-case form of lunar (“pertaining to Luna, the moon of Terra”).
- (historical) (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.
- (obsolete) Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
noun
- The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.
- An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.
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IPA pronunciation
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His sister, to his spiritual vision, was always like the lunar disk when only a part of it is lighted.
One single hypothesis remained to be realized, the arrival of the projectile at its destination by the action of the lunar attraction.
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As this period corresponds to ten menstrual cycles, physicians prefer to describe pregnancy as lasting 10 lunar months of four weeks each.
In corroboration of this, Plato represents him as having conjectured the right explanation of the moon's light, and of the solar and lunar eclipses.
Gloninger tells of a man of thirty-six, who, since the age of seventeen years and five months, had had lunar manifestations of menstruation.