- I am upstate and the lack of light pollution makes the eclipse a sight to behold.
- Later, the robot field geologist then took about a dozen images of the Sun to catch the eclipse by the Martian moon, Phobos before shutting down again for a little nap.
- On average a total solar eclipse is visible from any location only once every few centuries.
- Further, the rise of British naval power and the continuing eclipse of the Dutch navy during the war meant that Britain was confirmed as a major trading nation and one of the strongest economies of Europe.
- In short, the annulment has caused a backlash and the virtual eclipse of the power industry.
- There is the already encountered line of analysis that the eclipse of Soviet military power was not an accomplishment of the West, but rather an outcome self-inflicted by Soviet and Russian economic failure.
- This hypothesis would be supported if unpaired males in breeding plumage were more vigilant than unpaired males in cryptic eclipse plumage.
- At this time of the year individuals have completed breeding and begin to molt into their brown eclipse plumage, and they are easy to accurately age as adult breeding males.
- As the drake loses his bright plumage and acquires the more subdued feathering of the female, the bird appears to become hormonally sexually neutral and, for the remaining duration of the eclipse period, remains as a female.
- And, the rover also ‘snapped’ an inspiring picture of the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the Sun.
- Hours after the Saturn-Pluto opposition, the Sagittarius Moon will eclipse the Gemini Sun.
- The extent to which the Moon eclipses the Sun's disc increases the farther south one is of that curve.
- The Negotiator Class diplomatic cruiser eclipsed the light of a blue sun, highlighting battle worn scars along her hull like sunlight on a river.
- Near the center of the darkness was a spherical, green and blue colored object, eclipsing the biggest light in the area.
- Furry bodies eclipsed the fans of light spilling through the shutters, turning the scene surreal.
- By the twentieth century, Pompeii's metaphorical significance had largely eclipsed its moral charge.
- If the European dream is quietly eclipsing the American dream, why are the Europeans touting China as the rising power that will eclipse the U.S?
- He also observes that air power has completely eclipsed tanks' role as mobile artillery.
- After 1945 European power was increasingly in eclipse, although this was not always apparent to those who held power or to their supporters.
- That idea has long been in eclipse, and today it lies outside the mainstream of political opinion.
- At the end of WWI, with the Ottoman Empire in eclipse, they had the chance to expand influence in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Palestine etc and control both the geopolitics and the economy.
Middle English: from Old French e(s)clipse (noun), eclipser (verb), via Latin from Greek ekleipsis, from ekleipein 'fail to appear, be eclipsed', from ek 'out' + leipein 'to leave'.
Eclipse comes via Old French and Latin from Greek ekleipsis which was formed from ekleipein ‘fail to appear, forsake its accustomed place’.
Words that rhyme with eclipseChips, ellipse, thrips
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