gibbous in Czech
gibbous in Czech is vypouklý — gibbous means curved outwards, like a bulge.
gibbous in Czech
vypouklý
What does "gibbous" mean?
- adj Curved outwards, like a bulge.
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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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- 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 Czech?
"gibbous" in Czech is vypouklý. gibbous means: Curved outwards, like a bulge.
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