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Definition of Moon dial

Moon dial
Moon Moon, n. [OE. mone, AS. m[=o]na; akin to D. maan, OS. & OHG. m[=a]no, G. mond, Icel. m[=a]ni, Dan. maane, Sw. m[*a]ne, Goth. m[=e]na, Lith. men?, L. mensis month, Gr. ? moon, ? month, Skr. m[=a]s moon, month; prob. from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure), from its serving to measure the time. [root]271. Cf. Mete to measure, Menses, Monday, Month.] 1. 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. The crescent moon, the diadem of night. --Cowper. 2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn. 3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in her orbit; a month. --Shak. 4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon. Moon blindness. (a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at intervals of three or four weeks. (b) (Med.) Hemeralopia. Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight. Moon face, a round face like a full moon. Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic] Moon month, a lunar month. Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See Medic. Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

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- MoonDial is a 2024 studio album released by jazz musician Pat Metheny. All tracks are written by Pat Metheny, except where noted. Pat Metheny – baritone...
- began shortly after the astronomical new moon of 23 August 205 BC. The Games dial is the right secondary upper dial; it is the only pointer on the instrument...
- Deadline. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022. "The Poem on the Moon Dial". Area 33 United States. 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023. Clark, Campbell...
- clock with special mechanisms and dials to display astronomical information, such as the relative positions of the Sun, Moon, zodiacal constellations, and...
- mechanism has three main components – the astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details;...
- with the Dial to auction it on the black market. Jones is framed for two colleagues' murders, forcing him to escape through the Apollo 11 moon landing...
- Thomas Lockhart in In the Shadow of the Moon (2019), Ty Shaw in Vengeance (2022), Klaber in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and Clement Mansell...
- notable feature of this ****ure Earth is that the Moon was broken in two pieces. The shattered moon and the ruins of the former human civilization were...
- (V1.IV) (Modern Recordings, 2021) Dream Box (Modern Recordings, 2023) MoonDial (Modern Recordings, 2024) The following is a partial list of Metheny's...
- Maybole Cross in the gardens of Maybole Castle. The cross bears the coats of arms of the Kennedy family of C****illis and has a rare Moon dial on one face....