Umbriel

[ uhm-bree-el ]

noun

, Astronomy.

1. a moon of the planet Uranus.

Umbriel

/ ˈʌmbrɪəl /

noun

1. one of the main satellites of Uranus

Example Sentences

Even today, Tyson and others remind us that celestial objects are often named for characters like Jupiter, Umbriel and Oberon from mythology, poems and plays.

From Washington Post

Uranus is attended by four moons or satellites, named Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon, the last being the most remote from the planet.

From Project Gutenberg

Sixty years afterwards, Mr. Lassell, of England, discovered the remaining two satellites of Uranus, called Ariel and Umbriel.

From Project Gutenberg

Only Umbriel, 740 miles in diameter and covered with overlapping meteorite craters but with few other features, seems to have been largely unaffected by Uranian gravity--for reasons scientists cannot explain.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the same instrument, he further detected, on the 19th of September 1848, Hyperion, the seventh of Saturn’s attendants, and, on the 24th of October 1851, Ariel and Umbriel, the interior moons of Uranus.

From Project Gutenberg