OCCULTATION
\ˌɒkəltˈe͡ɪʃən], \ˌɒkəltˈeɪʃən], \ˌɒ_k_ə_l_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of OCCULTATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; - applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.
By Oddity Software
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The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; - applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.
By Noah Webster.
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A concealment, especially a hiding from view of one heavenly body by another, as an eclipse of a planet or star by the moon.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).