Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A luminous spot on a lunar halo.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bright spot on a lunar halo, produced by refraction through a preponderating number of ice-crystals floating perpendicularly or vertically; a mock moon. Two or more paraselenæ are generally seen at the same time, together with additional arcs or bands variously arranged. Paraselenæ are entirely analogous to parhelia. See
parhelion .
Wiktionary
- n. A bright, circular spot, sometimes seen on a lunar halo, caused by refraction through ice crystals
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Meteor.) A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. parhelion.
Etymologies
- para-1 + Greek selēnē, moon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Of such are the records of auroral displays, parhelions, paraselene, lunar halos, fog bows, irridescent clouds, refracted images of mountains and mirage generally.”
“Beneath the glamour of the magic night, the weird paraselene of the moon's phenomenon, the glow of the volcano, the noises, the men whispered of one thing only -- Gold!”
“A perfect paraselene is, I am convinced, an extremely rare thing, much rarer than a perfect parhelion”
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
“This morning it was calm and clear save for a light misty veil of ice crystals through which the moon shone with scarce clouded brilliancy, surrounded with bright cruciform halo and white paraselene.”
“All day it has been blowing hard, 30 to 60 miles an hour; it has never looked very dark overhead, but a watery cirrus has been in evidence for some time, causing well marked paraselene.”
“On the evening of November 11, there was a brilliant paraselene, two distinct halos and eight false moons being visible in the southern sky.”
The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club
“When there are two suns visible, or two moons, the real one and its duplicate, we call the mock sun a _parhelios_, and the mock moon a _paraselene_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paraselene’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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lunacy
moon-related
moon dog, transient lunar p..., selenography, moonbow, paraselene, maria, parantiselene, moon, luna, trapper's moon, harvest moon, hunter's moon and 94 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1991 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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Collection
Many words, all kinds.
pure, damsel, warrior, knight, helenium, endear, gilravage, paraselene, truelove, favrile, embouchure
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left-eyed flounders and other stretches
created to break clichés and cause temporary floundering
bothidae, flatfish, parabolic parables, tonguefish, after-image, anaglyph, Fotheringhay, aegilops, asquint, chicane, exedra, piñon jay and 66 more...
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Nifty Misc
rechauffe, merrythought, fossick, flacon, douceur, prandial, barbican, chuffed, whinge, bumf, knackered, ponce and 37 more...
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Gallimaufry
...words to be reassigned as time allows.
vade, viduity, surd, thropple, horary, sorites, ancile, roscid, spraints, birl, marmite, voxel and 68 more...
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nimble wimble
hole wholes AND/OR headlight or lighthead
wimble, nimble, aureole, glory, annulus, corona, haloing, surrounding, surrealround, anthelion, gloriole, sundog and 16 more...
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Poetic
words to use in poems
herb bennet, rabblement, afterclap, alluvial, expunction, paraselene, embouchure
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Unknown
Words I didn't know existed or never thought possible, that I like and want to keep tabs on them or remember them.
Tweets
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