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INFERIOR CONJUNCTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inferior conjunction mean? 

INFERIOR CONJUNCTION (noun)
  The noun INFERIOR CONJUNCTION has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sunplay

  Familiarity information: INFERIOR CONJUNCTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INFERIOR CONJUNCTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("inferior conjunction" is a kind of...):

alignment; conjunction ((astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)


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