Wiktionary
n. (context astronomy English) A phenomenon occurring when the Moon passes between the Earth and the sun.
WordNet
n. the moon interrupts light from the sun
Usage examples of "solar eclipse".
A measured length of darkness passed over him as he neared the hole and then he found himself pedaling in a white area between the shadow bands that precede total solar eclipse.
Best to let it fade into the general darkness which came with any solar eclipse.
There was a total solar eclipse in Maine, and your summer house on Dark Score Lake would have been right in the path of totality.
They can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance.
A solar eclipse makes it possible to see such sun-grazing starlight without its being completely obscured by sunlight itself.
Lawton has also researched the records of the 1929 French expedition to Indochina (Vietnam) to observe a solar eclipse and says that the chances of them meaning anything significant range from one in ten to one in forty-five.
The stars in the neighbourhood of the sun are photographed during a solar eclipse.
In an eclipse, we always look at the Moon-just the Moon in a Lunar eclipse, and the Moon covering the Sun in a Solar eclipse-and that's what we take photographs of.