SYZYGY
\sˈɪzɪd͡ʒi], \sˈɪzɪdʒi], \s_ˈɪ_z_ɪ_dʒ_i]\
Definitions of SYZYGY
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
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The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
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Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.
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The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.
By Oddity Software
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The conjunction or opposition of a planet with the sun, or of any two of the heavenly bodies; the period of new or full moon, when the sun, moon, and earth are in one line.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The point at which the moon or a planet in its orbit is in conjunction or opposition with the sun; the times of both new and full moon.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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