Lunar

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Moon (that is, Luna, the Earth's moon).

   “lunar observations  a lunar eclipse”

2. sıfat Shaped like a crescent moon; lunate.

   “Her tears purſu'd her words, and while ſhe ſpoke / The Goddeſs nodded, and her altar ſhook: / The temple doors, as with a blaſt of wind, / Were heard to clap; the lunar horns that bind / The brows of Iſis caſt a blaze around; / The trembling timbrel made a murm'ring ſound.”

3. sıfat Extremely high.

   “Julian wolfed down the rest of his dinner and when he accompanied Michelle back to her apartment his spirits were positively lunar.”

4. sıfat (Believed to be) influenced by the Moon, as in character, growth, or properties.

   “Some of the Ancients, and likewiſe diuers of the Moderne VVriters, that haue laboured in Naturall Magick, have noted a Sympathy, between the Sunne, Moone, and ſome Principall Starres; And certaine Herbes, and Plants. And they haue denominated ſome Herbes Solar, and ſome Lunar; [...]”

5. sıfat Of or pertaining to silver (which was symbolically associated with the Moon by alchemists).
6. sıfat Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.
7. isim The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus in the wrist, which is shaped like a half-moon.

   “There are two larger bones of the wrist called the scaphoid and lunar; these form a large ball, and this is received into the lower end of the radius.”

8. isim An observation of a lunar distance (“the angle between the Moon and another celestial body”), especially for establishing the longitude of a ship at sea.
9. sıfat Alternative letter-case form of lunar (“pertaining to Luna, the moon of Terra”).