(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
(a.) Resembling the moon; orbed.
(a.) Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
(a.) Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
(n.) A lunar distance.
(n.) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those figures are based on calculations recently made using images from Nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter cameras that reveal Lunokhod 2's tracks, the US space agency said.
(2) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(3) The lunar new year, also known as spring festival, is the most important holiday in China, sparking the world’s largest migration of people as millions of workers return home .
(4) The total content of collagen in skeletal muscle at 6 lunar month was 1.7% of wet weight of the tissue.
(5) The lunar particles found in the sample include: (i) spherules, rotational ellipsoids, dumbbells, tear-drops, rings, and crescents which have (ii) diameters of 0.1 to 500 microns; (iii) budlike features on the particles; and (iv) chemical inhomogeneity (electron probe).
(6) The example of the untreated peri-lunar luxation and subsequent lunar necrosis illustrates the legally effective problematic nature of two causes.
(7) São Paulo restaurants creating a new Brazilian cuisine Read more Music matches each course on a playful menu that varies not just with the seasons, but with lunar cycles and Vidolin’s spiritual state, so we’re told.
(8) Lumbar spine and femoral neck bone mineral density (BMD) were measured with a Novo radioisotope based dual photon densitometer and with a Lunar X-ray densitometer in 94 subjects attending a Metabolic Bone Disease Clinic.
(9) This phantom was scanned using the whole-body mode by the Lunar DPX to determine bone mineral content (BMC), area, bone mineral density (BMD), and body composition in terms of fat and fat-free tissue.
(10) We report here a quantitative comparison of the DEXA and DPA technologies using a Hologic DEXA (Hologic QDR model 1000, Waltham, MA) scanner and a Lunar DPA (Lunar Radiation DP3, gandolineum-153 source) scanner at both the proximal femur and lumbar spine sites using bone density measurements from a population-based sample of older white men and women who had complete DEXA and DPA measurements of the hip (n = 217) or the spine (n = 176).
(11) The statistical analysis revealed significant dependence of the obtained data on local geometrical properties of 12-hour lunar tidal waves.
(12) We would also be against any obstruction of solar or lunar sight lines from Stonehenge to surrounding monuments.
(13) On the Apollo missions, lunar dust got everywhere – the crews inhaled it and got it in their eyes, and it wreaked mechanical havoc – and on Mars the dust is even more problematic, because it is highly oxidised, chemically reactive, electrically charged and windblown.
(14) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
(15) Two complete magna representing two species have a single proximal facet for articulation with the lunar, and they lack a facet for the scaphoid.
(16) No relationship between lunar cycles and total accidents or severity of accident was found.
(17) The choatic scenes on first night of the lunar new year were prompted by a government decision to clear a central Hong Kong market of unlicensed food hawkers.
(18) We’ve gathered a few creative intergalactic lesson plans below – including edible meteorites and studying real lunar rocks.
(19) 12 studies are reviewed that have examined the relationships among crisis calls to police stations, poison centers, and crisis intervention centers and the synodic lunar cycle.
(20) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.
Moon
Definition:
(n.) The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
(n.) A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.
(n.) The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month.
(n.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
(v. t.) To expose to the rays of the moon.
(v. i.) To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) A second operation, total adrenalectomy, resulted in an improvement of the clinical and laboratory findings such as hypokalemia, high blood pressure, muscle atrophy and moon face.
(2) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
(3) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(4) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
(5) They are traditionally consumed on the first full moon of the new year; in our family we always like to have them right after the new year countdown.
(6) The HLP submitted its report (pdf) to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, in May, proposing 12 goals.
(7) By October the Chronicle's editors had announced a new series of articles, aimed at providing "a full and detailed description of the moral, intellectual, material, and physical condition of the industrial poor throughout England", and Mayhew was to be the Metropolitan Correspondent, filing regular reports from areas of London that might as well have been on the moon for all the notice most people took of them.
(8) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
(9) On the eve of the latest suicide data for the UK, Madeleine Moon, chair of the all-party parliamentary group for suicide and self-harm prevention (APPG), said a third of local authorities in England had no suicide action plan.
(10) Recently, two US congressmen proposed a bill known as the Apollo Lunar Landing Legacy Act that would declare a national park on the surface of the moon to protect the Apollo landings.
(11) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
(12) Daballen navigates the jeep between thorn bushes and over furrows, guided by a rising moon and his intimate knowledge of the terrain.
(13) She was often at Moon's side for the mass weddings.
(14) A statement by the spokesman for UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon demanded that both sides "immediately translate these commitments into action on the ground".
(15) World leaders will assemble at the UN general assembly this month to hear Ban Ki-moon set out his vision for what should replace the millennium development goals (MDGs).
(16) Ending marginalisation and exclusion of LGBT people is a human rights priority – and a development imperative,” said Ban Ki-moon at the UN general assembly last September , despite the fact there is no mention of LGBT rights in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) announced at the conference.
(17) Speaking from a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is promoting her novel, she said: "I'm over the moon.
(18) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon,has promised a separate UN investigation.
(19) Accusing Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur on housing, of having an agenda, Shapps said he had written to the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, demanding an apology and an explanation of Rolnik's findings.
(20) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.