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total eclipse
noun
- an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
total eclipse
noun
- an eclipse as seen from a particular area of the earth's surface where the eclipsed body is completely hidden Compare annular eclipse partial eclipse
total eclipse
/ tōt′l /
- An eclipse in which the entire surface of a celestial object is obscured.
- See more at eclipse
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Example Sentences
Although the eclipse was partially visible from parts of Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and South Africa, only a few lucky observers saw the full total eclipse from the ground in Antarctica.
The previous eclipse happened on May 26th, called a Super Flower Blood Moon—Blood for the color during a total eclipse, Flower for the May full moon, and Super for the moon being at its closest point to Earth.
November 19th’s lunar eclipse is also much longer, and will be “almost total,” unlike the total eclipse of the Flower Moon.
Here’s everything you need to know about this almost total eclipse.
The period of total eclipse was quite a lengthy one, and during the time it lasted the darkness was intense.
A partial eclipse of the sun will always occur about a fortnight before or after a total eclipse of the moon.
Such an eclipse is called annular, as shown in fig. 3; when this happens, there can be no total eclipse anywhere.
On the 24th of June, the little fleet shot the Falls of the Ohio amid the darkness of a total eclipse of the sun.
Her honeymoon was not only waning, but going into a total eclipse.
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