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gibbous in Catalan

gibbous in Catalan is gibós — gibbous means curved outwards, like a bulge.

gibbous in Catalan

gibós
adj
(astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.

What does "gibbous" mean?

  1. adj Curved outwards, like a bulge.
  2. adj (astronomy) Describes the moon or a planet when more than half but not all of its face is lit up.
    "The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven."
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gibbous in a sentence

  • The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.
  • On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.

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What is "gibbous" in Catalan?
"gibbous" in Catalan is gibós. gibbous means: Curved outwards, like a bulge.
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