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syzygy
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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 ...
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In poetry , a syzygy is the combination of two metrical feet into a single unit, similar to an elision . Consonantal or phonetic syzygy is also similar to the effect of alliteration , where one consonant is used repeatedly throughout a passage, but not ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context astronomy astrology English) A kind of unity, namely an alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse. 2 (context psychology English) ...
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.