"micromoon" meaning in All languages combined

See micromoon on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: micromoons [plural]
Etymology: micro- + moon Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|micro-|moon}} micro- + moon Head templates: {{en-noun}} micromoon (plural micromoons)
  1. (astronomy) A full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee (the point in the Moon's orbit at which is it farthest away from Earth). Wikipedia link: micromoon Categories (topical): Astronomy Synonyms: minimoon
    Sense id: en-micromoon-en-noun-oN033HlH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with micro- Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for micromoon meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro-",
        "3": "moon"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + moon",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "micro- + moon",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "micromoons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "micromoon (plural micromoons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "supermoon"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with micro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "en:Astronomy",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 March 20, Brian Resnick, “Wednesday's \"supermoon,\" explained in one chart”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2022-12-06",
          "text": "What you might notice tonight is that the moon will be brighter — about 30 percent brighter than a micromoon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 9, Jenna Amatulli, “Rare 'Micromoon' Is Gracing Us With Its Presence On Friday The 13th”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-11-08",
          "text": "On Friday the 13th, a harvest micromoon will grace the night sky across the United States.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 13, Matthew Cappucci, “For the first time in 13 years, a full moon rises this Friday the 13th”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2020-10-29",
          "text": "For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 November 18, Eva Corlett, quoting Rob Davison, “'Blood micromoon': New Zealand to enjoy partial lunar eclipse not seen for 800 years”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-11-29",
          "text": "Most of the eclipse will be dominated by the shadow moving across the moon, with a brief period where it will appear as a blood micromoon in our night sky.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee (the point in the Moon's orbit at which is it farthest away from Earth)."
      ],
      "id": "en-micromoon-en-noun-oN033HlH",
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "full moon",
          "full moon"
        ],
        [
          "apogee",
          "apogee"
        ],
        [
          "orbit",
          "orbit"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) A full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee (the point in the Moon's orbit at which is it farthest away from Earth)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "minimoon"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "micromoon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "micromoon"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro-",
        "3": "moon"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + moon",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "micro- + moon",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "micromoons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "micromoon (plural micromoons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "supermoon"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with micro-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 March 20, Brian Resnick, “Wednesday's \"supermoon,\" explained in one chart”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2022-12-06",
          "text": "What you might notice tonight is that the moon will be brighter — about 30 percent brighter than a micromoon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 9, Jenna Amatulli, “Rare 'Micromoon' Is Gracing Us With Its Presence On Friday The 13th”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-11-08",
          "text": "On Friday the 13th, a harvest micromoon will grace the night sky across the United States.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 September 13, Matthew Cappucci, “For the first time in 13 years, a full moon rises this Friday the 13th”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2020-10-29",
          "text": "For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 November 18, Eva Corlett, quoting Rob Davison, “'Blood micromoon': New Zealand to enjoy partial lunar eclipse not seen for 800 years”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-11-29",
          "text": "Most of the eclipse will be dominated by the shadow moving across the moon, with a brief period where it will appear as a blood micromoon in our night sky.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee (the point in the Moon's orbit at which is it farthest away from Earth)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "full moon",
          "full moon"
        ],
        [
          "apogee",
          "apogee"
        ],
        [
          "orbit",
          "orbit"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy) A full moon which appears unusually small due to coinciding with the Moon's apogee (the point in the Moon's orbit at which is it farthest away from Earth)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "minimoon"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "micromoon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "micromoon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (6c02f21 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.