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Occultation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OCCULTA'TION, n. [L. occultatio.]
1. a hiding; also, the time a star or planet is hid from our sight, when eclipsed by the interposition of the body of a planet.
2. In astronomy, the hiding of a star or planet from our sight, by passing behind some other of the heavenly bodies.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: one celestial body obscures another [syn: eclipse, occultation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. the state of being hidden from view or lost to notice 2. the interruption of the light from a celestial body or of the signals from a spacecraft by the intervention of a celestial body; especially an eclipse of a star or planet by the moon

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Occultation Oc`cul*ta"tion, n. [L. occultatio a hiding, fr. occultare, v. intens. of occulere: cf.F. occultation. See Occult.] 1. (Astron.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries. 2. Fig.: The state of being occult. The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation. --Jeffrey. Circle of perpetual occultation. See under Circle.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Perpetual Per*pet"u*al, a. [OE. perpetuel, F. perp['e]tuel, fr. L. perpetualis, fr. perpetuus continuing throughout, continuous, fr. perpes, -etis, lasting throughout.] Neverceasing; continuing forever or for an unlimited time; unfailing; everlasting; continuous. Unto the kingdom of perpetual night. --Shak. Perpetual feast of nectared sweets. --Milton. Circle of perpetual apparition, or occultation. See under Circle. Perpetual calendar, a calendar so devised that it may be adjusted for any month or year. Perpetual curacy (Ch. of Eng.), a curacy in which all the tithes are appropriated, and no vicarage is endowed. --Blackstone. Perpetual motion. See under Motion. Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw. Syn: Continual; unceasing; endless; everlasting; incessant; constant; eternal. See Constant.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Eclipse, occulting.

Moby Thesaurus

annular eclipse, blackout, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, burial, burying, cementwork, central eclipse, cloaking, clouding, coating, concealedness, concealment, coverage, covering, covering up, covertness, curtaining, darkening, deception, dematerialization, departure, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, eclipsing, elimination, envelopment, enwrapment, enwrapping, erasure, evanescence, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, going, hiddenness, hiding, incrustation, interment, invisibility, laying on, lunar eclipse, mantling, masking, melting, mystification, obduction, obscuration, obscurement, obscuring, overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, partial eclipse, passing, plasterwork, putting away, screening, secrecy, secretion, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, solar eclipse, stuccowork, subterfuge, superimposition, superposition, total eclipse, uncommunicativeness, upholstering, upholstery, vanishing, vanishing point, veiling, wipe, wrapping