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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lunar
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a lunar eclipse (also an eclipse of the Moon) (= one in which the Moon is hidden behind the Sun)
▪ If it's cloudy, it may not be possible to see the lunar eclipse.
lunar month
the lunar/solar cycle (=relating to the moon or the sun)
▪ the 28-day lunar cycle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
base
▪ As noted earlier, oxygen can in principle be recycled efficiently within a lunar base.
▪ Like a new lunar base, a baby must first master at least the arts of breathing and eating.
▪ The high-temperature electrolysis scheme that we explored in connection with a lunar base can separate carbon dioxide into oxygen and carbon monoxide.
▪ An oversimplified but instructive point can be made by considering the fate of carbohydrates transported to the lunar base from Earth.
▪ For these reasons, many engineers and mission planners have favored the use of nuclear power for the lunar base.
▪ This would substantially defray the cost of operating a lunar base.
▪ If ice is available at the site of the lunar base, then the situation is dramatically different.
▪ In other respects, the lunar poles are not an attractive site for the lunar base.
crater
▪ All of the various topographic features observed in lunar craters indicates their impact origin.
▪ Long before spacecraft missions first explored the Moon, speculation on the origin of the lunar craters abounded.
▪ They differ from corresponding lunar craters by having no central peaks and by having rather smooth rims.
▪ I would recommend them only for the casual observer who wants little apart from views of lunar craters.
eclipse
▪ It shows the moon's state every day of the year, as well as solar and lunar eclipses.
▪ Sept. 26: Second lunar eclipse.
▪ However, the recent lunar eclipse and Mercury in retrograde motion signify the financial position is much too uncertain.
▪ Solar and lunar eclipses, however, occurred far too rarely to provide any meaningful aid to navigation.
▪ You can also plot comets and minor planets as well as predict solar and lunar eclipses.
▪ It is a clear day, which should be ideal for watching the lunar eclipse that is expected tonight.
landscape
▪ But the pictures sent by Mariner 4 showed a starkly lunar landscape.
▪ Where once this corner of the island was swaddled in green, a lunar landscape now stands.
material
▪ The Earth then captures lunar material.
▪ There has been no mention of any way to profit from the use of lunar material.
▪ Various rocks show evidence that the lunar material has been melted, squirted out from volcanoes, and crushed by meteorite impacts.
▪ They therefore are also very efficient at releasing all the trapped solar-wind gases in the lunar material.
▪ Alternatively, arrays of solar cells may be made on the Moon out of lunar materials and only the power exported.
▪ This is almost certainly the first practical use of lunar materials to be attempted.
▪ Failing that, export of lunar materials will not make economic sense.
▪ The largest portion of our present knowledge comes from the study of returned lunar materials in laboratories on Earth.
module
▪ Grumman had installed them on the lunar module assuming that the astronauts would wish to use them.
▪ The Alvin is the lunar module of deep-sea exploration.
▪ About three days later the command, service and lunar module combination arrived at the Moon.
▪ Apollo 8 was scheduled to be the first Earth-orbital test of the lunar module.
▪ It was always thought that the lunar module would essentially be a skin wrapped round the tanks and equipment needed.
▪ The same problem arose later when the crew had transferred over to the lunar module.
▪ Unfortunately the filters used in the command module were the wrong shape to fit into the lunar module.
▪ Apollo 10 took a lunar module along as well and flew it to within nine miles of the surface.
month
▪ By the time you are thirty, an entire lunar month later.
▪ The days passed quickly toward the end of the eighth lunar month.
▪ The nineteen-year cycle depends on the discovery that nineteen solar years are very nearly equal to 235 lunar months.
▪ More probably it was to do with each member representing one of the lunar months of the year.
▪ They found that 309 lunar months were almost equal to twenty-five civil years.
regolith
▪ The lunar regolith is found covering the whole of the Moon's surface, aside from steep crater and valley walls.
▪ Another uses hydrofluoric acid to release oxygen from unprocessed lunar regolith.
▪ Agglutinates greatly complicate the business of extracting useful materials from mature lunar regolith.
▪ This is a feat of mythic proportions, comparable to extracting gold from sea water-or helium-3 from the lunar regolith.
▪ Kulcinski argues that the solar wind has implanted great quantities of hydrogen and helium into the lunar regolith.
rock
▪ Hardly any lunar rocks are younger than three billion years.
▪ In general, lunar rocks differ from terrestrial rocks in that the Moon contains much lower concentrations of easily vaporized elements.
▪ Schemes for extracting oxygen from lunar rocks usually feature melting or chemically destroying the principal minerals in the rocks and regolith.
▪ None the less, it is good to keep in mind that very few geochemists expect water to be found in lunar rocks.
surface
▪ Astronauts discovered that finding their way about on the lunar surface was often harder then they expected.
▪ The most obvious source of the necessary electrical energy would be solar panels set out on the lunar surface.
▪ Despite being obviously different in weight they struck the lunar surface together.
▪ Such a transportation system will exert a constant demand for fuel both at the space station and on the lunar surface.
▪ Standing in bright sunlight on the lunar surface would be extremely hot.
▪ Sufficiently large impacts can hurl crater ejecta to any point on the lunar surface.
▪ In only one case was a sample obtained from a large lump of rock, these being scarce on the lunar surface.
▪ Unfortunately, water remains unknown in materials returned from the lunar surface.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the lunar landscape
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About three days later the command, service and lunar module combination arrived at the Moon.
▪ An oversimplified but instructive point can be made by considering the fate of carbohydrates transported to the lunar base from Earth.
▪ Figure 6.3 is about the best that can be done with the lunar data at present.
▪ His longtime sailboat, named Apogee in honor of his lunar Apollo flight, is for sale.
▪ In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day, the position of the Moon.
▪ The answer is C acceleration. as far away as and four times the lunar mass.
▪ The prospect of servicing and repairing such equipment under lunar conditions is simply frightening.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunar

Lunar \Lu"nar\, n.

  1. (Astron.) A lunar distance.

  2. (Anat.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.

Lunar

Lunar \Lu"nar\ (l[=u]"n[~e]r), a. [L. lunaris, fr. luna the moon. See Luna, and cf. Lunary.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.

  2. Resembling the moon; orbed.
    --Dryden.

  3. Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.

  4. Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs. --Bacon. Lunar caustic (Med. Chem.), silver nitrate prepared to be used as a cautery; -- so named because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists. Lunar cycle. Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle. Lunar distance, the angular distance of the moon from the sun, a star, or a planet, employed for determining longitude by the lunar method. Lunar method, the method of finding a ship's longitude by comparing the local time of taking (by means of a sextant or circle) a given lunar distance, with the Greenwich time corresponding to the same distance as ascertained from a nautical almanac, the difference of these times being the longitude. Lunar month. See Month. Lunar observation, an observation of a lunar distance by means of a sextant or circle, with the altitudes of the bodies, and the time, for the purpose of computing the longitude. Lunar tables.

    1. (Astron.) Tables of the moon's motions, arranged for computing the moon's true place at any time past or future.

    2. (Navigation) Tables for correcting an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax.

      Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lunar

"crescent-shaped," early 15c.; "pertaining to the moon," 1620s, from Old French lunaire (15c.), from Latin lunaris "of the moon," from luna "moon" (with capital L- "moon goddess"); see Luna.\n\n

Wiktionary
lunar

a. 1 Of, or pertaining to, the Moon; moonly. 2 Crescent-shaped, lunate. 3 Resembling the moon; orbed. 4 Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties. 5 (context alchemy English) Of, or pertaining to, silver. n. 1 (context astronomy English) A lunar distance. 2 (context anatomy English) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus.

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WordNet
lunar

adj. of or relating to or associated with the moon; "lunar surface"; "lunar module"

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Wikipedia
Lunar

Lunar may refer to:

  • Relating to the Moon
  • Lunar distance (navigation)
  • Lunar Design a San Francisco based design consultancy
  • Lunar Linux
  • Hasselblad Lunar, a mirrorless digital camera based on the Sony Alpha NEX-7
  • Lunar (series), a series of console video games
  • "Lunar", a song Priestess from the album Prior to the Fire
  • "Lunar Cometh", the forthcoming album by musician Birdengine
Lunar (series)

The Lunar games are a series of role-playing video games, developed by Game Arts in Japan and published in the United States by Working Designs, Ubisoft, and Xseed Games.

The original releases of The Silver Star and Eternal Blue, were published for Mega-CD in Japan and Sega CD in North America. They were later remade for the Japanese Sega Saturn with considerable story, graphical, and musical changes. These remakes were later ported to the PlayStation in Japan and North America. The first game was also ported to the Microsoft Windows computer platform in Japan and Korea, and was later remade for the Game Boy Advance and PlayStation Portable in Japan and North America.

A side-story game, Lunar: Walking School for the Game Gear, was also remade for the Sega Saturn but has seen no North America release in any form. Backed by publisher Ubisoft, Game Arts created a new Lunar installment for the Nintendo DS, released in September 2005 in North America.

Lunar (song)

"Lunar" is a song by French disc jockey and record producer David Guetta in collaboration with Dutch music producer and DJ Afrojack, from Guetta's fifth studio album, Nothing but the Beat. The instrumental track was released digitally on August 15, 2011, as the second of three promotional singles from the album, following the song Titanium.

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Usage examples of "lunar".

They were indeed the same dark folk who had shanghaied Carter on their noisome galley so long ago, and whose kith he had seen driven in herds about the unclean wharves of that accursed lunar city, with the leaner ones toiling and the fatter ones taken away in crates for other needs of their polypous and amorphous masters.

One wall, facing the borehole, was just a single huge pane of tough, anhydrous lunar glass.

Vancouver Lunar Circle, particularly engineers Guy Immega and Ray Maxwell, physicist Douglas Beder, and astronomer Jaymie Matthews.

My principal consultants and unindicted co-conspirators were the gentlemen who have assisted me with all of my recent novels, the Vancouver Lunar Circle, particularly engineers Guy Immega and Ray Maxwell, physicist Douglas Beder, and astronomer Jaymie Matthews.

As a result, the planned concentration of blows in the lunar core did not come about, and the cavitation took place eccentrically.

And I need the observations of the lunar magnetometer and electrometer coordinated with a set of readings taken on Phobos and on Satellite Nine.

Andromeda about the period of the birth of Stephen Dedalus, and in and from the constellation of Auriga some years after the birth and death of Rudolph Bloom, junior, and in and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.

The Feen held shares in the multinational Lunar Enterprise System, so Cogdill paid heed.

Archer was even stalling around on the matter of letting Ace serve the Feen with a perfectly legitimate murder warrant, issued by a Lunar court.

A tour shop, its entrance flanked by glass-cased, bright-lit posters showing the vast rise of Olympus Mons, the gorge of Marineris just as vast, Io spuming yellow, red, and black, the desolation of the lunar highlands, coral reefs on Earth, fishless and stark, Earth itself viewed from orbit.

In world myth and folklore, many images are seen: a woman weaving, stands of laurel trees, an elephant jumping off a cliff, a girl with a basket on her back, a rabbit, the lunar intestines spilled out on its surface after evisceration by an irritable flightless bird, a woman pounding tapa cloth, a four-eyed jaguar.

On the edge of the plateau stands Barbe Barber, the Institute of Medical Meditation, an elaborate and ancient building in the grand fifty-first epoch manner, as fugal as Angkor Wat, as uncompromising as the Lunar Enterventual.

The ancient Hierophantic calendar is based on a lunar year divided into twelve 29-day months and four seasonal festivals, which account for an additional twelve days.

Their garments, of silk and cloth of silver, of velvets cunningly embroidered, displayed the new heraldry that honored the Empress, and was therefore watery and lunar: crabs, crayfish, clamshells, lymphads, the moon in all her phases, fish, eels, crocodiles.

The mutineer barricades resembled the piles of furniture dumped in the hallways whenever the solid lunar rock floors in the living quarters were resealed.