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Astronomical conjunction
Answer for the clue "Astronomical conjunction ", 6 letters:
syzygy
Alternative clues for the word syzygy
- Highest-scoring Scrabble word that doesn't use A, E, I, O or U
- Celestial configuration
- Alignment of the sun, earth and moon, e.g
- Celestial alignment
- Alignment of celestial bodies
- Celestial line-up
- The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
Word definitions for syzygy in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Syzygy " is the thirteenth episode of the third season of the science fiction television series The X-Files . The episode first aired in the United States on January 26, 1996, on Fox . It was written by series creator Chris Carter and directed by Rob ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syzygy \Syz"y*gy\ (s[i^]z"[i^]*j[y^]), n.; pl. Syzygies (-j[i^]z). [L. syzygia a joining together, conjunction, Gr. syzygi`a; sy`n with + zeygny`nai to join, zygo`n yoke: cf. F. syzygie. See Yoke , n.] (Astron.) The point of an orbit, as of the moon or ...
Usage examples of syzygy.
Here is the moon at her perigee, in syzygy, and near the equator, as I showed you last night, and you smoked it directly, did you not?
The Warlocks will be persuaded by Peer Ao Aoen that, since the sun is in Leo, and since Pluto, if it still existed, would have been in syzygy with Earth at this time, the omens decree the harshest of penalties.
Between one footfall and the next, a vivid syzygy of ideas lined up in his mind.
It was all but intolerable, as the two suns were all but in syzygy, the blue-white midget shining through the great pale gaseous mass of the giant, so that together they cast only a single shadow.
Syzygy, crapulent, posterity, smegma, toiletry, dystopia, dentrifrice, bastinado, ferae naturae.
Drat had nothing by way of comment to that, Cadbury moodily walked the four miles back north to his current gnawing-assignment, a large poplar growing at the edge of Papermill Creek, and sank his teeth furiously into the base of the poplar, imagining to himself that the tree was a syzygy of Dr.