lunar
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1. lunar - Noun
2. lunar - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
Resembling the moon; orbed.
Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs.
A lunar distance.
The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus; -- called also semilunar, and intermedium.
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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
The moon makes her circuit of the heaven in twenty-eight days plus about an hour, and with her return to the sign from which she set forth, completes a lunar month.
Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight - a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.
Later Apollo flights were able to do more and move further in order to cover larger areas, particularly when the Lunar Rover vehicle became available in 1971.
In lunar gravity, it was easy to do one-handed push ups and somersault effortlessly.