About The Word Occultation
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Occultation
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What's The Definition Of Occultation?
[n] one celestial body obscures another
Synonyms | Synonyms for Occultation: eclipse Related Terms | Find terms related to Occultation: 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 See Also | break | egress | emersion | immersion | ingress | interruption | lunar eclipse | partial eclipse | solar eclipse | total eclipse Occultation In Webster's Dictionary \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}.
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