Evection

Definition:

  • () The act of carrying up or away; exaltation.
  • () An inequality of the moon's motion is its orbit to the attraction of the sun, by which the equation of the center is diminished at the syzygies, and increased at the quadratures by about 1ยก 20'.
  • () The libration of the moon.

Compare evection with other words:

ejection vs. evection

erection vs. evection

evection vs. exection

evection vs. eviction

evection vs. vection

election vs. evection

evection vs. sun

evection vs. gravitational

evection vs. orbit

evection vs. lunar