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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lunation¹

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

Example Sentences

In fact, the year and the lunation are to one another very nearly in the proportion of 235 to 19.

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Now that lunation having commenced on the 3rd of December, and consisting of thirty days, will end on the 1st of January.

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The calendar is constructed on the assumptions that the mean lunation is 29 days 12 hours 44 min.

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So that in both these cases fever commenced in half a lunation after the contagion was received.

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The fever and eruption in the distinct kind take up another quarter of a lunation, and the maturation another quarter.

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