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PARTIAL ECLIPSE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does partial eclipse mean?

• PARTIAL ECLIPSE (noun)
The noun PARTIAL ECLIPSE has 1 sense:

1. an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured

Familiarity information: PARTIAL ECLIPSE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PARTIAL ECLIPSE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("partial eclipse" is a kind of...):

eclipse; occultation (one celestial body obscures another)

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