limb
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8.9
- noun
- /lɪm/
- Specialized
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limbo
- Close to the solar limb, the corona's temperature is about 2,000,000 K.
- limb of the Sun
Examples
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And those photons take about a million years to get to the limb of the sun.
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This requires space vehicles to get at the right position so that the edge or limb of the moon occults appropriate stars.
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After opposition, we always see Io disappear behind the limb of Jupiter and then reappear from the planet's shadow.
Academic text (2002) -
The sun's bottom limb was just touching the ridge, and the sky was the color of hammered pewter.
Fiction book (1997) -
As we look towards the edge or limb of the planet, we can see the Martian horizon and also we can see a detached cloud or limb haze.
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The spacecraft captured stunning images of the lunar limb as it orbited the Moon.
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As the sun began to set, the limb of the fiery disk slowly dipped below the horizon.
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Astronomers focused their telescopes on the limb of Mars to observe its atmospheric conditions.
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.2
An uncomfortable feeling that seems to come from a missing arm or leg
- Specialized
A disease that slowly makes the shoulder and hip muscles weaker and smaller
Surface Forms
Etymology
In astronomy, limb means the outer 'edge' of the sun, moon, or a planet, using the same picture of something that forms a border or outline. So the moon's limb is simply the visible outer edge you see in the sky.