Annular Eclipse Definition

noun
A solar eclipse in which the moon covers all but a bright ring around the circumference of the sun.
American Heritage
An eclipse in which a ring of sunlight can be seen around the disk of the moon.
Webster's New World

(astronomy) A solar eclipse in which the thin outer disk of the sun can be seen as a ring around the moon.

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Noun

Singular:
annular eclipse
Plural:
annular-eclipses

Annular Eclipse Sentence Examples

  • The full annular eclipse was observed further north in Scotland.

  • As early as 1831 (during the annular eclipse of the sun) she had been her father's assistant in his observations.

  • His notice of "Baily's Beads," during an annular eclipse of the sun on the 15th of May 1836, at Inch Bonney in Roxburghshire, started the modern series of eclipse-expeditions.

  • He visited England in 1748, and, in company with the earl of Morton and James Short the optician, continued his journey to Scotland, where he observed the annular eclipse of July 25.

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