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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

/ luːˈneɪʃən /

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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Word History and Origins

Origin of lunation1

1350–1400; Middle English lunacyon < Medieval Latin lūnātiōn- (stem of lūnātiō ). See Luna, -ation
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Example Sentences

The flower moon, for example, is a Farmer’s Almanac-listed name for May’s lunation associated with spring blooms.

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.

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

From BBC

At intervals of a double lunation, equal to fifty-nine days, one and one-half hours, the terminator goes very nearly through the same objects, so that the circumstances of illumination are comparable.

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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