alignment
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6.8
- noun
- /əˈlaɪnmənt/
- Specialized
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conjunción
- Tomorrow night, there will be an alignment.
- planetary alignment
- astronomical alignment
And that alignment of the planets is pretty damn rare.
- And that alignment of the planets is pretty damn rare.
- So you see the, you see it moving around, always keeping its alignment to the host star.
- Also these specific alignments of the planets, the, the, the sun and the moon.
- But that is an alignment of planets akin to a total solar eclipse.
- We're suggesting that it the Serpent Mound's alignment to the summer solstice sunset is just slightly off.
- So again, it's all the same people, I think you know, the same knowledge and understanding of, of the sun and the angles and, and the solstices and star alignments.
- So make sure you catch this nice trio, this nice alignment of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus in the last two weeks of December while you still can.
- This is Earth coming into alignment with the plane of our solar system and our sun forming a cross with the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Examples
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It has to do with a temporary celestial alignment.
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The regular phenomena can be counted on: meteor showers, planetary alignments, lunar phases.
Academic text (1996) -
The stars are almost in alignment.
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And on some parts of the globe, the alignment is just right for the moon to block out all of the light from the sun.
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Majesty, an alignment of the stars has drawn us here.
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The stars are approaching their alignment.
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A perfect alignment of massive objects would offer clues to the rate of cosmic expansion.
Academic text (2003) -
The sun and planets are always in some sort of alignment with the galactic center.
Blog text (6) -
This is Earth coming into alignment with the plane of our solar system and our sun forming a cross with the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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During a special event, we will observe a rare alignment of the planets that occurs once every few decades.
Synonyms
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When two planets or stars appear very close together in the sky
Compounds
How Aligned
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Alignment comes from the verb align, from the Latin linea 'line'. In astronomy, an alignment is when planets appear to 'line up' in the sky, which is why we use the same word for this meeting of bodies.