c. 1300, from Old French eclipse "eclipse, darkness" (12c.), from Latin eclipsis, from Greek ekleipsis "an eclipse; an abandonment," literally "a failing, forsaking," fro [..]

late 13c., "to cause an eclipse of," from Old French eclipser, from eclipse (see eclipse (n.)).Figurative use from 1570s. Also in Middle English in an intransitive sense "to suffer an e [..]

The total or partial blocking of one celestial body by another.

Eclipse [N]of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9 ; Micah 3:6 ; Zechariah 14:6 ; Joel 2:10 . Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God's anger ( Joel 3:15 ; Job 9:7 ). The darkness at the crucifixion ha [..]

an event where one heavenly body obscures the light of another. Read more in the NG Education Encyclopedia

to block out or overshadow.

Eclipse plumage describes the plumage of drake wild fowl in the autumn when they have shed their wing feathers. The usual spectacularly bright plumage would put them at risk from predators, so they moult to a drabber plumage (similar to the female) which offers better camouflage and more protection.

one celestial body obscures another overshadow: be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness" cause an eclipse of (a celestia [..]

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a cutting off of light from the sun when the moon comes between the sun and the earth

n. The obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body.

When the Earth enters the Moon's shadow as the Moon moves wholly (total eclipse) or partially (partial eclipse) in front of the Sun as seen from Earth.

When the Moon enters the Earth's shadow as the Earth moves between the Sun and the Moon.

of the sun alluded to in Amos 8:9; Micah 3:6; Zech. 14:6; Joel 2:10. Eclipses were regarded as tokens of God's anger (Joel 3:15; Job 9:7). The darkness at the crucifixion has been ascribed to an [..]

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and f [..]

To dream of the eclipse of the sun, denotes temporary failure in business and other secular affairs, also disturbances in families. The eclipse of the moon, portends contagious disease or death.   

Open-source application development tools, www.eclipse.org

An event that occurs when the shadow of a planet or moon falls upon a second body. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s shadow falls upon Earth, which we see as the Moon blocking the Sun. When Earth’s shadow falls upon the Moon, it causes a lunar eclipse.

— Any interference between the light from the Sun and the object being illuminated. The Moon frequently moves between the Earth and the Sun, blocking out the Sun's rays.

An eclipse is an astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object moves into the shadow of another.

An occurrence in which one celestial object is partially or totally blocked from view by another.

A. Solar. The sun's light is cut off by the moon's interposition between the sun and the earth.

(n) one celestial body obscures another(v) be greater in significance than(v) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention

Is when an object moves into the shadow of another. Lunar eclipse is where the shadow of the Earth falls on the moon and a Solar eclipse happens when the shadow of the moon falls on the Earth. [more]

When two celestial bodies align with the Sun, one blocking the light of the Sun from the other (Lesson 29)

(n.) The hiding of one celestial body by another. The hiding of a star by a body of larger angular size is usually called an occultation.

were considered by the ancient Greeks and Romans as bad omens. Nicias, the Athenian general, was so terrified by an eclipse of the moon, that he durst not defend himself from the Syracusans; in conseq [..]

Occurs when the satellite's solar arrays are in the Earth's shadow.

This is a circuit in a camera that when activated will turn very white areas of the picture into black. An example of this is when an automobile’s headlights are in a scene the circuit will “eclipse” [..]

Cessation of light due to passing into a shadow. Applied to darkening of Moon's disc when she passes into shadow cast by Earth. Also applied to occultation of Sun by Moon. Strictly speaking, the [..]

An interval of darkness between appearances of a light.

The partial or total apparent darkening of the sun when the moon comes between the sun and the Earth (solar eclipse), or the darkening of the moon when the full moon is in the Earth's shadow (lun [..]

An interval of darkness between appearances of a light.

Eclipse is an open-source platform of extensible software development application frameworks, tools and run times that was initially created as a Java-based integrated development environment (IDE). E [..]

when one celestial body, such as the sun or the moon, hides another from view.

Eclipse is an open source community that provides a universal toolset for application development. It is comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing sof [..]

  An integrated development environment for writing programs in Java (and other programming languages). Eclipse is a free program that can be downloaded from http://eclipse.org.

n. "(astro.) eclipse," s.v. eclipse OED. KEY: eclipse@n

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the total or partial blocking of one celestial body by another.

The obscuring of one celestial body by another. (1) A Solar Eclipse occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the Sun. In a total eclipse, the solar disk is completely obscured; in a partial eclipse the solar disk is only partly obscured: (2) A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon enters the shadow cast by the Earth: (3) Spacecraft in the Eart [..]

The earth's equator (and therefore a geostationary satellites orbit) is inclined to the orbit of the earth around the sun. This inclination allows sunlight to power the satellite on-board systems [..]

an event in which the shadow of one celestial body falls on another

The obscuring of one celestial body by another. See lunar eclipse or solar eclipse.

The obscuring of one celestial body by another.

The obscuring of one celestial body by another. Related terms: lunar eclipse

The obscuring of one celestial body by another.

A condition in which the satellite is not in view or in direct line of sight with the sun. This happens when the earth is between them.