(n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.
(n.) The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
(v. t.) To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
(v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
(v. i.) To suffer an eclipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this achievement was eclipsed by a surge in Labour support.
(2) The data are interpreted, on the basis of available crystallographic structures of chicken mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase, to indicate that in each case the alteration in 31P chemical shift results from a conformational change in the coenzyme 5' side chain, in which one of the structures involves a near-eclipsed pair of bonds.
(3) The inactivity of these drugs is rationalized in terms of eclipsed pharmacophore configurations and the increased population of unfavorable rotational conformations made possible by the exocyclic position of both pharmacophores.
(4) Greatest efficacy was seen when therapy began early in the infection, presumably while the virus was in its eclipse phase.
(5) I don't mean in the sense that the taxpayer would have to pick up the pieces if it went under, but in the sense that the social networking service has achieved a position of such dominance in the online ecosystem that its eclipse is unthinkable.
(6) The observation in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol of electrophoretic bands corresponding to trimeric and higher cross-linked polypeptide chain species rules out the alternating ring and confirms the two-layered eclipsed model.
(7) Rescue kinetics of MSV, observed after murine leukemia virus (MuLV) superinfection of these "sarcoma-positive leukemia-negative (S + L -)" mouse 3T3 cells, consisted of a 9- to 12-hr eclipse period followed by simultaneous release of both MSV and MuLV with no evidence for release of infectious MSV prior to the production of progeny MuLV.
(8) It's debatable whether the success of the films has eclipsed the original diaries.
(9) The eclipse period for the A25 phage-host system was found to extend for 34 min, while the C1 phage were found as early as 10 min after infection.
(10) The Prestonpans factory was eclipsed by an even greater one – for a time it boasted the world’s highest chimney – that made bleach and sulphuric acid on the outskirts of Glasgow; and it was in Glasgow that some of the earliest cases of acid violence were recorded.
(11) Osborne had already been eclipsed by Brexiteer Boris Johnson in the hearts of many individual members, who tend to be more Eurosceptic than the Tory party in parliament.
(12) There was such power and experience in Chelsea's ranks that it always felt as if Arsenal's youth and invention might be eclipsed.
(13) It now finds itself within touching distance of becoming the biggest parliamentary force, eclipsing its more moderate rivals in the Labour party and on course to gain at least 30 parliamentary seats.
(14) The Howard-Dolman (H-D) is a version of Howard's stereoacuity test (H) which has almost completely eclipsed the original.
(15) The parainfluenza antigen became detectable by immunofluorescence in the infected cell perinuclear region after a relatively long eclipse period (18 h) and synthetized virus has few RNA and induced no inclusion information in the cytoplasm or the nucleus.
(16) It just eclipsed the end of BBC1's Casualty, which attracted 4.2 million viewers (17.5%) and John Bishop's Britain, which drew 3.4 million viewers (15.2%) across its entire run between 9.15pm and 10.15pm.
(17) "The speed with which the Labour party eclipsed the Liberal party in the early part of the last century was, in large part, because Labour better understood the need for such collectivist responses, especially at a time of war, and an internally divided Liberal party did not."
(18) Although historically the Marxist paradigm went into eclipse during the early twentieth century, the field has developed rapidly during recent years.
(19) She will also go head to head with another ITV export, James Goldston, who has been credited with rejuvenating ABC's Good Morning America, which has eclipsed NBC's Today from its longstanding position at number one in the breakfast ratings war.
(20) An estimated £810m was spent online by British shoppers on Friday, according to internet retail experts IMRG, a figure that eclipsed the £650m splurge predicted for Cyber Monday, and potentially means Boxing Day has been usurped as the biggest shopping day of the year once store sales are taken into account.
Planetary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
(a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
(a.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
(a.) Caused by planets.
(a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The future of work will be made up of jobs that don’t yet exist within industries and using technologies that are new, in planetary conditions that no human being has ever experienced.
(2) The results indicate that polyamino acids could have been formed thermally under a variety of possible prebiotic atmospheres and on planetary bodies of low atmospheric pressure.
(3) "We just do not know how to recall a planetary-scale technology once it has been released.
(4) As a planetary geologist, the author has analyzed results of the various space missions.
(5) Catalytic properties of aluminosilicates may play a role in the synthesis of biological molecules from simple gaseous molecules commonly found in planetary atmospheres.
(6) Her declaration of planetary rights invests ecosystems with similar legal safeguards to those won by humans after the second world war.
(7) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
(8) Mathematical analysis of acceleration generated by the planetary motion of the apparatus revealed a unique centrifugal force field which promises high retention of the stationary phase in the multilayer coil to perform efficient preparative-scale counter-current chromatography.
(9) After all, two Phobos probes had failed in 1988, plans to launch Phobos-Grunt in 2009 were abandoned very late in the day and Russia has not launched its own planetary mission since 1996 when Mars-96 burnt up over the Pacific and South America after a rocket failure.
(10) Kevin is an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist by trade, and while his primary area of research is the Jovian moon Europa, currently all the excitement at JPL is focused on the red planet.
(11) We and many other civil society organisations have been much better at saying what is wrong with the current system than providing a positive new story about how we can flourish while living within planetary ecological limits.
(12) This calls for a new logic; abundance within planetary boundaries.
(13) In the lateral coil position the retention was found to be affected by the direction of the planetary motion and the head-tail elution mode.
(14) Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPrize and asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources, knows Elon Musk and SpaceX well.
(15) Past transformations that saw planetary temperatures soar took millions of years to occur.
(16) Each method has been shown to potentially reduce temperature on a planetary scale.
(17) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
(18) "One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life," said Abel Méndez, director of the planetary habitability laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo.
(19) What those numbers mean is that our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.
(20) The Mars500 project was designed to assess the reaction of the human mind and body to the stresses of a potential spaceflight to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.