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Definition: Eclipse |
EclipseNoun1. One celestial body obscures another. Verb1. Exceed in importance; outweigh; "This problem overshadows our lives right now". 2. Cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies". 3. Cause an eclipse of; of celestial bodies; "The moon eclipsed the sun". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eclipse" was first used: sometime around 1280. (references) |
Etymology: Eclipse \E*clipse"\, noun. [French ['e]clipse, Latin eclipsis, from Greek, prop., a forsaking, failing, leave out, forsake; out to leave. See Ex-, and Loan.]. (references) |
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Computing | ECLIPSE A Prolog + CLP compiler from ECRC. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Aerospace | 1. The reduction in visibility or disappearance of a nonluminous body by passing into the shadow cast by another nonluminous body. 2. The apparent cutting off, wholly or partially, of the light from a luminous body by a dark body coming between it and the observer. 1. The first type of eclipse is exemplified by a lunar eclipse, the moon passing through the shadow cast by the earth; or by the passage of a satellite into the shadow cast by its planet; but when the satellite actually passes directly behind its planet, it may properly be termed an occultation.2. The second type of eclipse is exemplified by a solar eclipse, caused by the moon passing between the sun and the earth. If the relative positions and distances are such that at a point on the earth the sun is completely obscured, the eclipse is total; if the distances are such that, when in line with the sun, the moon is surrounded by a ring of light, the eclipse is annular; and when the moon passes to one side of a straight line from sun to observer and shows a crescent of light, it is a partial eclipse. (references) |
Bible | Eclipse of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; Zech. 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God's anger (Joel 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an eclipse (Matt. 27:45); but on the other hand it is argued that the great intensity of darkness caused by an eclipse never lasts for more than six minutes, and this darkness lasted for three hours. Moreover, at the time of the Passover the moon was full, and therefore there could not be an eclipse of the sun, which is caused by an interposition of the moon between the sun and the earth. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of the eclipse of the sun, denotes temporary failure in business and other secular affairs, also disturbances in families. The eclipse of the moon, portends contagious disease or death. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | An obscuration of light from a source by an intervening body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Physics | The cutting off, or blocking, of light from one celestial body by another. (references) |
Science | The partial or total apparent darkening of the sun when the moon comes between the sun and the Earth (solar eclipse), or the darkening of the moon when the full moon is in the Earth's shadow (lunar eclipse). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An eclipse occurs when an astronomical body such as a planet, or satellite gets between a source of light (e.g. the Sun) and another body. For instance, Jupiter eclipses its moons when it gets between them and the Sun.
From Earth's point of view, eclipses can be:
Total eclipses occur where the light source is totally blocked off by the eclipsing body. For total solar eclipses, the viewer is in the umbra part of the moon's shadow.
- Lunar eclipses - the Earth obscures the Sun, from the Moon's point of view. The Moon moves through the shadow cast by the Earth. This can only happen at full moon.
- Solar eclipses - the Moon obscures the Sun, from the Earth's point of view. The Moon casts a shadow that touches the surface of the Earth. This can only happen at new moon.
Partial eclipses occur at places where only part of the luminary is covered (solar eclipses), or when only part of a body is eclipsed by the shadow (lunar eclipses). For solar eclipses, the viewer is in the penumbra part of the moon's shadow.
An annular eclipse is a total eclipse of luminary where a thin ring of light is visible around the intervening object. It is sheer coincidence that the Moon and Sun have nearly equal apparent sizes, making annular eclipses possible. Annular eclipses are ideal times for observing solar prominences.
As seen from Earth, an eclipse can only occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in a line. Because the plane of the orbit of the Moon is tilted with respect to the plane of the orbit of the Earth (the ecliptic), eclipses occur only when the three bodies are near the intersection of these planes: these are nodes. The Sun passes either node once a year, and eclipses occur in a period of about 2 draconic months around these times. There can be from 2 to 7 eclipses in a calendar year. They repeat according to eclipse cycles.
External References
The following web page lists many of the cycles over which solar and lunar eclipses repeat, including the Saros and Inex :
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/calendar/eclipsecycles.htmEclipse is also a open source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) platform developed by IBM.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eclipse."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Eclipse is an open source, platform-independent, IDE (Integrated Development Environment), originally developed by IBM.
Uniquely, Eclipse extensively employs plug-ins to provide functionalities, which are usually built-in on most of IDEs. By creating plug-ins, Eclipse can support any language such as Java or C, and building tools such as compilers and debuggers. Eclipse and its plug-ins are written in the Java programming language.
The user-interface of Eclipse uses a GUI framework called SWT. Unlike AWT or Swing of Java, SWT uses native widgets such as buttons. It makes Eclipse work faster than Swing, which emulates any widgets by pure Java code.
External Links
- Eclipse website - mailing-list, newgroups, and list of plug-ins.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eclipse (computing)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A solar eclipse is an eclipse occurring when the Sun, Moon and Earth are on a single line, the Moon being in the middle. Seen from the Earth, the Moon is in front of the Sun and thus part or all of the light of the Sun is hidden by the Moon. Thus it may seem that a piece has been taken out of the Sun, or that it has suddenly disappeared. There are three types of solar eclipses:
Solar eclipses can only happen during the new moon phase.
- A partial solar eclipse: Only part of the Sun and the Moon overlap
- A total solar eclipse: All of the Sun is hidden by the Moon
- A ring-formed or annular eclipse: Sometimes the Moon's umbra does not reach the Earth's surface. This can happen if the Moon is near apogee. This is similar to a penumbral eclipse. During an annular eclipse, a ring of the Sun can still be seen around the Moon. The Moon's shadow umbra often fails to reach the Earth.
Warning: Never look at the Sun directly, even during an eclipse. To do so can cause retinal damage and affect one's eyesight. Always use protection, such as welder's glasses, that are recommended for the extreme brightness of the sun, or view the image of the Sun indirectly on, say, a piece of paper, using a simple pinhole camera. Sunglasses are not sufficient!
Total and annular eclipses both occur when the Moon lines up with the Sun exactly, but since the Moon's orbit is not perfectly circular it is sometimes farther away from Earth and doesn't always cover the entire solar disc from an Earthly vantage point.
(Photo taken by John Walker during the Zambia 2001 eclipse)A solar eclipse can only be seen in a band across the Earth as the Moon's shadow moves across its surface, while a total or annular eclipse is actually total or ring-formed in only a small band within this band (the eclipse path), and partial elsewhere (total eclipse takes place where the umbra of the Moon's shadow falls, whereas a partial eclipse is visible where the penumbra falls). The full band is generally around 100 km across. The eclipse path will be widest if the Moon happens to be at perigee, in which case the eclipse path alone can reach 270 km in diameter.
Total solar eclipses are rare. Total solar eclipse can usually be seen from an area, for only a few moments. The Moon's umbra moves eastward at over 1700 km per hour. Totality can never last more than 7 1/2 minutes. Typically, totality lasts for a much shorter period of time.
For astronomers, a total solar eclipse forms a rare opportunity to watch the corona, the outer layer of the Sun. Normally this is not visible because the light of the Sun overshines the corona.
Calculating the Date of a Solar Eclipse
If you know the date and time of a (solar) eclipse, you can predict other eclipses using eclipse cycles. The saros and inex are well-know eclipse cycles.
Historical Solar Eclipses
Herodotus wrote that Thales of Milete predicted an eclipse which occurred during a war between Medians and Lydians. Soldiers on both sides put down their weapons and declared to peace as a result of the eclipse. Exactly which eclipse was involved has remained uncertain, although the issue has been studied by hundreds of ancient and modern authorities. One likely candidate took place on May 28, 585 BC, probably near the Halys river, in the middle of modern Turkey.
April 16, 1178 BC, a real total eclipse of the sun took place at Ithaca Greek island, about four years after the end of the Trojan War. Homer XIV, 151 states that at the failing of the old moon and the coming of the new shall Odysseus return to his home, and take vengeance on the suitors of Penelope. Homer addas (XX, 356-357 and 390) that the sun vanished out of heaven and an evil gloom had covered all things about the hour of the midday meal, during the celebration of new moon.
February 17, 478 BC: a real eclipse of the sun occurred at Sardis, when Xerxes was departing for his expedition against Greece, as Herodotus, VII, 37 recorded. (Hind and Chambers, 1889: 323 have considered this absolute date more than a century ago.) During the next year, another solar eclipse was observed in Sparta. It took place on August 1, 477 BC, says Herodotus IX, 10 and VIII, 131, and IX, 1. The sky suddenly darkened in the middle of the sky, well after the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis, after the departure of Mardonius to Thessaly at the beginning of the spring (477 BC) and his second attack on Athens, after the return of Cleombrotus to Sparta. Note that the modern conventional dates are different by a year or two, and these two eclipse records have been ignored so far.
A new study claims that the Varronian date is superseded. Its correctness have not been proved scientifically but it is used worldwide. The foundation of Rome took place 437 years after the capture of Troy (1182 BCE), according to Velleius Paterculus (VIII, 5). It took place shortly before an eclipse of the Sun that was observed at Rome on June 25, 745 BC and had a magnitude of 50.3%. Its beginning occurred at 16:38, its middle at 17:28, and its end at 18:16. Varro may have used the consular list with its mistakes, and called the year of the first consuls "245 ab urbe condita" (a.u.c.).
According to Lucius Tarrutius of Firmum, Romulus was conceived in the womb on the 23rd day of the Egyptian month Choiac, at the time of a total eclipse of the Sun. (This eclipse occurred on June 15, 763 BCE, with a magnitude of 62.5% at Rome. Its beginning took place at 6:49, its middle at 7:47 and its end at 8:51.) He was born on the 21st day of the month Thoth. The first day of Thoth fell on March 2 in that year (Prof. E.J. Bickerman, 1980: 115). It means that Rhea Silvia's pregnancy lasted for 281 days. Rome was founded on the ninth day of the month Pharmuthi, which was the 21st of April, as universally agreed. The Romans add that about the time Romulus started to build the city, an eclipse of the Sun was observed by Antimachus, the Teian poet, on the 30th day of the lunar month. This eclipse (see above) had a magnitude of 54.6% at Teos, Asia Minor. It started at 17:49 it was still eclipsed at sunset, at 19:20. Romulus vanished in the 54th year of his life, on the Nones of Quintilis (July), on a day when the Sun was darkened. The day turned into night, which sudden darkness was believed to be an eclipse of the Sun. It occurred on July 17, 709 BC, with a magnitude of 93.7%, beginning at 5:04 and ending at 6:57. (All these eclipse data have been calculated by Prof. Aurél Ponori-Thewrewk, retired director of the Planetarium of Budapest.) Plutarch placed it in the 37th year from the foundation of Rome, on the fifth of our July, then called Quintilis, on "Caprotine Nones," Livy (I, 21) also states that Romulus ruled for 37 years. He was slain by the senate or disappeared in the 38th year of his reign. Most of these have been recorded by Plutarch (Lives of Romulus, Numa Pompilius and Camillus), Florus (Book I, I), Cicero (The Republic VI, 22: Scipio's Dream), Dio (Dion) Cassius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (L. 2). Dio in his Roman History (Book I) confirms this data by telling that Romulus was in his 18th year of age whan he had founded Rome. Therefore, three eclipse records prove that Romulus reigned from 746 to 709 BCE.
See also: eclipse, lunar eclipse
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Solar eclipse."
Synonyms: EclipseSynonyms: occult (v), overshadow (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper. |
Behind a screen; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds; invisible; buried, underground, perdu; secluded. | |
Be concealed; Verb: suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu, lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush); seclude oneself; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep, play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt. | |
Disrepute | Obscure. eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance. |
Adjective: disgraced; Verb: blown upon; "shorn of its beams ", shorn of one's glory; overcome, downtrodden; loaded with shame; Noun: in bad repute; Noun: out of repute, out of favor, out of fashion, out of countenance; at a discount; under a cloud, under an eclipse; unable to show one's face; in the shade, in the background; out at elbows, down at the elbows, down in the world. | |
Repute | Rival, surpass; outshine, outrival, outvie, outjump; emulate, eclipse; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; overshadow. |
Superiority | Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eclipse |
| English words defined with "eclipse": Absolute time, aureole ♦ chromosphere, corona ♦ Eclipsed, Eclipsing, egress, emersion ♦ Obscuration, occult ♦ partial eclipse ♦ Solar protuberances ♦ Thales, Thales of Miletus, total eclipse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "eclipse": coronagraph ♦ Darley Arabians, DG/L, DGL ♦ K CORONA ♦ Moon ♦ partial lunar eclipse, partial solar eclipse, penumbral eclipse ♦ Races ♦ Sun ♦ total solar eclipse ♦ VAX. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Eclipse" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (eclipse, obscuration), Spanish (eclipse). |
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Screenplays | A word of advice: never fall in love during a total eclipse. (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; writing credit: Burt Shevelove; Larry Gelbart) As I am sure most of you will know, a solar eclipse occurs as a result of the interposition of the Moon between the Earth and the Sun. (The Day the Earth Caught Fire; writing credit: Wolf Mankowitz; Val Guest) I don't care a tinker's damn about this eclipse of the sun as such; the evening papers will cane it, it'll be dead by tomorrow morning (The Day the Earth Caught Fire; writing credit: Wolf Mankowitz; Val Guest) | |
Lyrics | A total eclipse of the heart (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler) To see the total eclipse of the sun (YOU'RE SO VAIN; performing artist: Carly Simon) Into the nightfall eclipse (Your Shadow, My Shelter; performing artist: Surface) Eclipse, you elevate my soul (Elevation; performing artist: U2) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Eclipse (1999) El Eclipse (1970) Eclipse of the Sun Virgin (1967) How He Saw the Eclipse (1900) Eclipse (2002) | |
Song Titles | Total Eclipse Of The Heart (performing artist: Nicki French) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Shown are three kinds of European cigarettes: Eclipse, HI-Q, and Inside. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Eclipse 99. Credit: NASA. |
 | Charles Schott with Davidson meridian instrument Eclipse expedition of 1870. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Deployment of meteorological balloon OCEANOGRAPHER maiden voyage Eclipse expedition to South America Early example of cooperative meteorological and oceanographic research. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Eclipse & no eclipse or two views of one object. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The years seemed all at once to have passed into a gray eclipse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | News note: astronomers study eclipse seven quadrillion miles away. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The sun goes into eclipse. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | U.S. astronomer to check wandering moon during eclipse. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Eclipse, 1911 / Eugène Atget. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Solar eclipse" by Ewald Brunmüller Commentary: "Solar eclipse seen through morning-fog in summer 2003." | "Eclipse of the Sun" by Matthias Faltenbacher Commentary: "Penumbral solar eclipse Germany 31.05.2003." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The vision had been in an eclipse, it was reappearing |
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Health | Following primary infection (see Figure, numbers 1 & 2), the virus enters an eclipse phase in which it cannot be easily detected within the host. This phase may last for several days or months. (references) | |
Business | Their marketing and advertising expenditure could eclipse that of most SA franchises and they also bring high operational and service delivery standard. (references) | |
Economic History | Zambia | Nevertheless, tourism has earned Zambia US$ 91.2 in the year 2000, up from US$85.2 million in 1999. With improved marketing and infrastructure, it is hoped that that number will be even higher in 2001. This effort received a boost from the total solar eclipse of June 2001, for which an estimated 12,000 tourists visited Zambia. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Eclipse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.44% of the time. "Eclipse" is used about 248 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 79.44% | 197 | 21,803 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 13.71% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.84% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.21% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.81% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 248 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Eclipse Surgical Technologies, Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "eclipse": Annular eclipse ♦ be in eclipse ♦ eclipse of the moon ♦ in eclipse ♦ lunar eclipse ♦ partial eclipse ♦ solar eclipse ♦ total eclipse. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "eclipse": Coral-eclipse. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mitsubishi eclipse | 3,434 | mitsubishi eclipse 2000 | 106 |
eclipse | 3,179 | mitsubishi eclipse part | 104 |
solar eclipse | 2,090 | eclipse aquarium | 99 |
eclipse body kit | 500 | mitsubishi eclipse for sale | 98 |
total eclipse of the heart | 379 | 1999 mitsubishi eclipse | 95 |
lunar eclipse | 354 | eclipse speaker | 91 |
eclipse car audio | 341 | mitsubishi eclipse gsx | 91 |
eclipse audio | 295 | mitsubishi eclipse pic | 88 |
mitsubishi eclipse body kit | 248 | total eclipse | 86 |
mitsubishi eclipse spyder | 225 | 1997 mitsubishi eclipse | 85 |
eclipse car | 197 | 1998 mitsubishi eclipse | 83 |
eclipse cigarette | 195 | eclipse car stereo | 77 |
eclipse heart lyrics total | 190 | 1996 mitsubishi eclipse | 77 |
mitsubishi eclipse picture | 166 | eclipse part | 76 |
1995 mitsubishi eclipse | 161 | aviation eclipse | 75 |
eclipse spyder | 150 | eclipse stereo | 74 |
2003 mitsubishi eclipse | 129 | mitsubishi eclipse accessory | 73 |
fast and furious eclipse | 125 | eclipse subwoofers | 73 |
eclipse gsx | 118 | spider eclipse | 72 |
used mitsubishi eclipse | 111 | eclipse performance part | 70 |
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| Language | Translations for "eclipse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | errësoj (adumbrate, becloud, bedim, black out, blur, darken, dim, dusk, fog, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shadow), errësirë (background, blackness, darkness, fogginess, gloom, mirk, mist, murk, night, nigrescence, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, opaque, staining), eklipsoj, eklips. (various references) | |
Arabic | كسوف (occultation, solar), كسف (outshine), تفوق (beat, beat all, break, class, distinction, exceed, excel, excellence, get the better of, go one better, lick, mastery, outclass, outguess, overpass, overrule, pre eminence, precede, predomination, preponderance, preponderate, prevalence, seniority, superiority, supremacy, surpass, top, tower, transcend, transcendence), خسوف, ظلم (abuse, aggrieve, darken, extortion, gloom, grind, grow dark, inequality, inequity, iniquity, injustice, oppress, oppression, shadow, tyrannize, unfairness, wrong), بز (beat, distance, exceed, excel, outclass, outmatch, outrival, outshine, outstrip, overpass, surpass). (various references) | |
Basque | eklipse. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | затъмнявам (adumbrate, becloud, black out, cloud, darken, obscure, occult, outshine, out-top, shade, shadow), затъмнение (blackout, dim out, immersion, obscuration, occultation), залез (decline, ebb, set, setting, sunset, twilight), зимна перушина, помрачавам (alloy, bedim, cloud, darken, dim, dull, dusk, nip, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow, trouble). (various references) | |
Chamorro | kinilís. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蚀 (Eclipsed, Eclipsing), 蝕 (eat up slowly), 月蝕 , 日蝕 . (various references) | |
Czech | zpùsobit zatmìní, zatmìní, zastínit (outshine, overshadow, shade), překonat (beat, better, bridge, clear, conquer, exceed, Excel, get the better of, go beyond, heal, outdo, overcome, refute, surmount, surpass, tide over). (various references) | |
Danish | eklipse. (various references) | |
Dutch | eclips. (various references) | |
Farsi | کسوف یاخسوف , گرفتگی (Congestion, Jamming, Melancholia, Obstruction), گرفت , تحت الشعاع قراردادن (Outshine, Overshadow). (various references) | |
Finnish | taivaankappaleen pimennys, pimennys (black-out), himmenntää (blur, darken, dim, dip the lights, obscure, outshine, screen off, stop down). (various references) | |
French | éclipse. (various references) | |
German | verfinstern (darken, obfuscate), Eklipse. (various references) | |
Greek | έκλειψη (disappearance, eclpise). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקוי מאורות (obscuration), לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, imperfection, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), לקות (blemish, defect), להאפיל (blackout, darken, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade), אפול (blackout). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fogyatkozás (diminution, wane), elsötétülés, elhalványulás (fading, flattening). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengatasi (contend, cope, overcome, superintend), kebinasaan, gerhana (in difficulty, obscuration). (various references) | |
Italian | eclissi (obscuration). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 凌 (defy, endure, excel, keep out, pull through, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, tiding over). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, completion, defy, dormitory, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume). (various references) | |
Korean | 식 (Ceremonies, Ceremony). (various references) | |
Manx | doorey (obscuration, obscurity, shade, shadiness), cur fo doorey, cur fo bodjal. (various references) | |
Norwegian | eklipse, formørkelse. (various references) | |
Occitan | eclipsi. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eclipseay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | eclipse (obscuration). (various references) | |
Romanian | eclipsã, eclipsa (blind, disappear, efface, extinguish, obfuscate, outshine, overshadow, surpass, vanish), umbri (adumbrate, blur, cloud, darken, dim, obfuscate, screen, shade, worsen). (various references) | |
Russian | затмение (obscuration). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pomračiti (occult), pomračenje (obscuration). (various references) | |
Spanish | eclipse. (various references) | |
Swedish | förmörka (cloud, darken, gloom, obfuscate, obscure, occult, overcast). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้เกิดคราส, ทำให้ลดความสำคัญลง, การสูญเสียความสำคัญ, คราส. (various references) | |
Turkish | tutulmasına neden olmak, tutulma (attack, being held, Crick, fastening, go, immersion, kink, popularity), geçici karanlığa bürünme, geçici başarısızlık, gölgede bırakmak (cut out, dwarf, Excel, outshine, overshade, overshadow, put into the shades, supplant, trump, upstage), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, fall, falling, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble), ışığını kesmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | затьмарювати (alloy, begloom, blear, cloud, darken, obfuscate, obscure, outdazzle, overcast, overcloud, overshade, overshadow, overtop, shade, shadow, shine down), затемняти (becloud, darkle, obnubilate, obtenebrate, opacate, overcast), затемнення (blackout, ecliptic, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration), занепадати (decay, decline, degrade, fall off), потьмарення (tarnish), потемніння (blur, obscuration). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự mất vẻ lộng lẫy, sự che khuất (occultation). (various references) | |
Welsh | diffyg (defect, lack, want). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | ekleipsis. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | defectio, defectione, defectionem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eclipse": eclipsed, eclipses. (additional references) | |
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"Eclipse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clipse, ecclese, ecclipse, eclampsia, eclip, eclipes, eclips, eclipst, ecllipse, elips, elipse, elipso, Euclase. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eclipse" (pronounced ikli"ps or ēkli"ps) |
| 5 | -k l i" p s | clips. |
| 4 | -l i" p s | blips, ellipse, flips, lips, slips. |
| 3 | -i" p s | chips, dips, drips, equips, grips, hips, microchips, outstrips, pips, quips, rips, ships, sips, skips, snips, strips, thrips, tips, trips, whips, zips. |
| 5 | -k l i" p s | clips. |
| 4 | -l i" p s | blips, ellipse, flips, lips, slips. |
| 3 | -i" p s | chips, dips, drips, equips, grips, hips, microchips, outstrips, pips, quips, rips, ships, sips, skips, snips, strips, thrips, tips, trips, whips, zips. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: clepes, pieces, specie, splice. | |
-2 letters: ceils, cepes, clepe, clips, epics, peels, peise, peles, piece, piles, plies, sepic, sleep, slice, slipe, speel, speil, spice, spiel, spile. | |
-3 letters: cees, ceil, cels, cepe, ceps, clip, eels, else, epic, ices, isle, lees, leis, lice, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, pecs, peel, pees, pele, pice, pics, pies, pile, plie. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: calipees, eclipsed, eclipses, especial, exciples, pedicels, pedicles, preslice, resplice, semplice. | |
+2 letters: callipees, chelipeds, clipsheet, epicycles, pellicles, pencilers, pickerels, precisely, prelacies, presliced, preslices, priceless, replicase, respliced, resplices, specialer, spiceless, splenetic. | |
+3 letters: cineplexes, clipsheets, despicable, eclipsises, epicalyces, epicalyxes, epileptics, especially, explicates, fireplaces, heelpieces, opulencies, percalines, pericycles, pestilence, plasticene, plebiscite, preclusive, princelets, recompiles, replicases, replicates, specialest, specialise, specialize, splenetics, tailpieces, telescopic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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