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  1. noun The partial or complete obscuring, relative to a designated observer, of one celestial body by another.
  2. noun The period of time during which such an obscuration occurs.
  3. noun A temporary or permanent dimming or cutting off of light.
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  • And now that the eclipse is here, there's an angry mob approaching the Observatory The end of the world might seem inherently memorable, but the image of night falling once every couple of millennia is particularly vivid. —  ChallengingDestiny#24:August2007
  • Columbus would not receive them; he shut himself up in his cabin and remained there while the eclipse increased, hearing from within, as the narrator says, the howls and prayers of the savages It was not until he knew the eclipse was about to diminish, that he condescended to come forth, and told them that he had interceded with God, who would pardon them if they would fulfil their promises. —  The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
  • When the eclipse was about to diminish, he came forth and informed the natives that his God had deigned to pardon them, on condition of their fulfilling their promises; in sign of which he would withdraw the darkness from the moon. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
  • Lunar eclipses are more easily seen because when the moon passes through Earth's shadow in a lunar eclipse, the darkened moon can be seen by everyone on the side of Earth facing the moon. —  wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
  • Solar eclipse is a natural phenomenon, as it takes place when moon comes between sun and earth in a straight line. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin eclīpsis, from Greek ekleipsis, from ekleipein, to fail to appear, suffer an eclipse : ek-, out; see ecto- + leipein, to leave; see leikw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English eclips (more frequent in the abbreviation form clips, clyppes, clyppus, etc.: see clips), from Old French eclipse, French éclipse = Provencal eclipsis, eclipses, elipse = Spanish Portuguese eclipse = Italian eclisse, ecclisse, ecclissi, from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ἒκλειψις, an eclipse, literally a failing, forsaking, from ἐκλείπειν, leave out, pass over, forsake, fail, intransitive leave off, cease, suffer an eclipse, from ἐκ, out, + λείπειν, leave.
  2. from Middle English eclipsen, from Old French eclipser, French éclipser = Provencal Spanish Portuguese eclipsar = Italian eclissare, ecclissare; from the noun.
 

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