Lunation Definition

lo͝o-nāshən
noun

Lunar month.

Webster's New World
The time that elapses between successive new moons, averaging 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes; a lunar month.
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Other Word Forms of Lunation

Noun

Singular:
lunation
Plural:
lunations

Origin of Lunation

  • Middle English lunacioun from Medieval Latin lūnātiō lūnātiōn- from Latin lūna lunar

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • from lunar

    From Wiktionary

Lunation Sentence Examples

  • The solar day, the solar year, and the lunar month, or lunation, may therefore be called the natural divisions of time.

  • The method is based upon consideration of the degree of the previous syzygy (lunation).

  • It must happen sometimes that in the course of a lunation the sun enters into no new sign; in this case the month is intercalary, and is called by the same name as the preceding month.

  • But the fourteenth of this moon falls at the latest on the 18th of April, or 29 days after the 20th of March; for by reason of the double epact that occurs at the 4th and 5th of April, this lunation has only 29 days.

  • The Calendar Is Constructed On The Assumptions That The Mean Lunation Is 29 Days 12 Hours 44 Min.

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Words Starting With

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NONION

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