Question

What does the word "eclipse" mean?

Answer 1

a complete or partial hiding of the sun caused by the moon's passing between the sun and the earth.

or

a darkening of the moon caused by its entering the shadow of the earth.

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Answer 2

Eclipse by definition means "an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination." The verb form of the word means "(of a celestial body) obscure the light from or to (another celestial body)."

*All definitions derived from Google dictionary

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