What's the difference between lunar and paraselene?

Lunar


Definition:

  • (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.

Paraselene


Definition:

  • (n.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.

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