syzygy

[ UK /sˈɪzɪd‍ʒi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system
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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.
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