OCCULTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

One celestial body obscures another

Synonyms:

eclipse; occultation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("occultation" is a kind of...):

break; interruption (some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity)

Meronyms (parts of "occultation"):

egress; emersion ((astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse)

immersion; ingress ((astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "occultation"):

solar eclipse (the moon interrupts light from the sun)

lunar eclipse (the earth interrupts light shining on the moon)

total eclipse (an eclipse as seen from a place where the eclipsed body is completely obscured)

partial eclipse (an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured)