Lune definition

lo͝on
A crescent-shaped portion of a plane or sphere bounded by two arcs of circles.
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(falconry) A leash for a hawk.
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(obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.
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(hawking) A leash for a hawk.
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Anything crescent-shaped.
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A crescent-shaped figure on a plane or spherical surface.
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A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
lune
Plural:
lunes

Origin of lune

  • Latin lūna moon leuk- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From French lune, from Latin luna.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Latin luna (“moon”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of lyon.

    From Wiktionary

Lune Sentence Examples

  • It is pleasantly situated at the junction of several small streams forming the river Lune, in a deep valley surrounded by high-lying moors.

  • His request was immediately granted, and thus it came about that Hansen's famous Tables de la Lune were dedicated to La Haute Amiraute de sa Majeste la Reine de la Grande Bretagne et d'Mande.

  • To the north, west and south, a flat coastal belt, bordering the Irish Sea, with its inlets Morecambe Bay and Solway Firth, and broadest in the north, marks off the Lake District, while to the east the valleys of the Eden and the Lune divide it from the Pennine mountain system.

  • The principal tributaries on the right are the Aller, Wi mme, Drepte, Lune and Geeste, and on the left the Diemel, Nethe, Emmer, Werra, Aue and Hunte.

  • Hippocrates of Chios (c. 430 B.C.), the discoverer of the square of a lune, showed that the problem reduced to the determination of two mean proportionals between two given lines, one of them being twice the length of the other.

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