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Conjunction, opposition
Answer for the clue "Conjunction, opposition ", 6 letters:
syzygy
Alternative clues for the word syzygy
- Astronomical conjunction
- Why doing my quiz nearly always ends up in an astronomic row
- The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
- Opposition regularly says "guys": unknown Yankee interrupts
- Heartless, sneaky, zany guy's opposition of three?
Word definitions for syzygy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"conjunction or opposition of a heavenly body with the sun," 1650s, from Late Latin syzygia , from Greek syzygia "yoke of animals, pair, union of two, conjunction," from syzygein "to yoke together," from assimilated form of syn- "together" (see syn- ) + ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In astronomy , a syzygy (from the Ancient Greek suzugos meaning, "yoked together") is a straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies in a gravitational system. The word is often used in reference to the Sun , Earth , and either the Moon or a planet ...
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.