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lunar(dictionary)
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lunar periodicity(medicine)
soli-lunar(dictionary)
lunar month(dictionary)

lunar (iou)



lunar adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin lunaris, formed as LUNA: see -AR1.]
A. adjective.
Crescent-shaped; marked with crescent-shaped spots. LME.
Of or pertaining to the moon; situated in or on the moon; of or pertaining to travel to the moon. Formerly also, (supposedly) influenced by or dependent on the moon. E17.
b. Monthly, menstrual. rare. L17.
c. Having the character of the moon as opp. to that of the sun; not warmly bright; pale, pallid. M18.
[So called because the class includes &kdbelow;, the initial letter of Arab. &kdbelow;amar moon.] Of an Arabic consonant: before which the l of the article is not assimilated. Opp. SOLAR adjective1 4. L18.
Of or containing silver. E19.
Special collocations & comb.: lunar caustic fused silver nitrate. lunar cycle the Metonic cycle. lunar day the interval of time between two successive crossings of the meridian by the moon. lunar distance the angular distance of the moon from the sun, a planet, or a fixed star, used in calculating longitude at sea. lunar-diurnal adjective pertaining to the lunar day. lunar eclipse: see ECLIPSE noun 1. lunar excursion module, lunar module a module designed to take an astronaut from an orbiting spacecraft to the moon's surface and back. lunar month (a) = SYNODIC month; (b) a period of 28 days (four weeks). lunar node either of the two points at which the orbit of the moon cuts the ecliptic. lunar observation an observation of lunar distances in finding longitude at sea. lunar orbit (a) the orbit of the moon around the earth; (b) an orbit around the moon. lunar regular: see REGULAR noun 4. lunarscape a picture or view of the moon's surface; the lunar landscape. lunar year a period of twelve lunar months (about 354 1 / 3 days).
b. noun.
A moonlike body, a satellite. Only in M17.
a. A lunar distance; a lunar observation. M19.
b. A look. colloq. M19.
The lunate bone. M19.
lunarnaut noun [after ASTRONAUT etc.] a person who travels or has travelled to the moon M20.