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UK
/sˈɪzɪdʒi/
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NOUN
- the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
How To Use syzygy In A Sentence
- Words are celebrated in vocabularic feats -- Page 117 alone delights a word-lover with "syzygy," "invigilator" and "fusee. Tom McCarthy's "C," reviewed by Samantha Hunt
- It was a syzygy, a rare alignment of heavenly bodies, and yes, it totally made my day. Stars AND Garters!
- He told her he had missed the word "syzygy" (in astronomy, an alignment of three celestial objects). IndyStar.com Top Stories
- I used to love the word syzygy because, in the Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, its definition (in the mathematical sense) went something like: "A group of rational, integral functions, which, when severally multiplied together, the sum of the products vanishes identically. BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition
- And I do not think this set of paired opposites, this syzygy, is unique to me. Notes from the peanut gallery
- In case you didn't know, Earth, the Moon, and the Sun are in syzygy every time they line up in space.
- If pressed, could you spell syzygy or capybara, phylactery or omphaloskepsis or acouchi? Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Now and then, however, the planets hit syzygy, everything lines up, and something not even in the realm of consideration on Monday pops up on Tuesday. Archive 2009-10-01
- Once more, I was looking at a three-dimensional picture of the solar system during the syzygy, but this was much further along in time.
- The Moon may be said to be in syzygy when it is at either of these points.