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LUNATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lunation mean?
• LUNATION (noun)
The noun LUNATION has 1 sense:
1. the period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
Familiarity information: LUNATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period between successive new moons (29.531 days)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
lunar month; lunation; moon; synodic month
Hypernyms ("lunation" is a kind of...):
month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)
Holonyms ("lunation" is a part of...):
lunar year (a period of 12 lunar months)
Context examples
This new moon is much better than last year’s, for that lunation was fending off strikes from Saturn and Pluto.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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