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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɒkəlˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌɑkəlˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ [General-American] Audio: En-au-occultation.ogg Forms: occultations [plural]
Etymology: From Latin occultātiōnem, accusative singular of occultātiō (“concealment; insinuation”), from occultāre, present active infinitive of occultō (“to conceal, hide”); analysable as occult + -ation. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|occultātiōnem}} Latin occultātiōnem, {{glossary|accusative case|accusative}} accusative, {{glossary|singular number|singular}} singular, {{glossary|present tense|present}} present, {{glossary|active voice|active}} active, {{glossary|infinitive}} infinitive, {{suffix|en|occult|ation}} occult + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} occultation (countable and uncountable, plural occultations)
  1. (astronomy) An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Astronomy Synonyms: eclipse Translations (astronomical event): okultacioni (Albanian), احْتِجَاب [masculine] (Arabic), ezkutaketa (Basque), пакрыццё (pakryccjó) (Belarusian), অদৃশ্যকরণ (odriśśokron) (Bengali), затъмнение (zatǎmnenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), ocultació (Catalan), 掩星 (Chinese Mandarin), okultace (Czech), zákryt (Czech), okkultation (Danish), bedekking (Dutch), occultatie (Dutch), kaŝado (Esperanto), okkultaatio (Finnish), tähdenpeitto (note: of a star) (Finnish), occultation [feminine] (French), ocultación [feminine] (Galician), Bedeckung [feminine] (German), Okkultation (German), Verfinsterung (German), επιπρόσθηση (epiprósthisi) (Greek), הסתרה (Hebrew), stjörnumyrkvi (Icelandic), okultasi (Indonesian), ceilt [feminine] (Irish), occultazione [feminine] (Italian), 掩蔽 (enpei) (alt: えんぺい) (Japanese), 엄폐 (eompye) (Korean), aizklāšanās (Latvian), okultācija (Latvian), прикривање (prikrivanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), окултација (okultacija) [feminine] (Macedonian), penghijaban (Malay), ഉപഗൂഹനം (upagūhanaṁ) (Malayalam), okkultasjon (Norwegian Bokmål), okkultasjon (Norwegian Nynorsk), اختفاء (Persian), okultacja (Polish), ocultação (Portuguese), ocultație (Romanian), покрытие (pokrytije) (Russian), okultacija [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), zákryt (Slovak), okultacija (Slovene), ocultación [feminine] (Spanish), ockultation (Swedish), покриття (pokryttja) (Ukrainian)
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  2. The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”). Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: hiddenness, invisibility, occultness
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  3. (Shia Islam) The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time. Tags: Shia, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Shi'ism Translations (Mahdi's disappearance in twelver Shiite's doctrine): الغَيْبَة (al-ḡayba) [feminine] (Arabic)
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Synonyms: accultation [rare] Derived forms: deoccultation, lunar occultation, nonoccultation, preoccultation Related terms: 🝵, eclipse, syzygy

Noun [French]

IPA: /ɔ.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-occultation.wav Forms: occultations [plural]
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          "text": "The bright star Aldebaran is to be occulted by the moon on December 20th, at about 5 o'clock pm. Aldebaran is said to be eight hundred and eighty times the mass of the sun, with a diameter of over 8,000,000 miles; a distance so great that a meteor traveling at the rate of thirty miles per second, would require over three days to cross the disk of the star. Yet, notwithstanding the immense volume, the accultation will occur in a moment, so great is the distance of the star from us, and will continue for about one hour and eight minutes.",
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          "text": "Stellar occultations potentially provide the highest precision data for relating solar system ephemerides to the stellar reference frame. For example, occultations by the Uranian rings can define the position of the occulted star relative to the rings to better than 0.02 mas (equivalent to a few hundred meters at the distance of Uranus). Occultations by atmospheres can be less precise than occultations by symmerical solid bodies, like rings and large asteroids, with a precision on the order of 1.0 mas.",
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N. for John Martyn at the Bell, a little without Temple-Bar, printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, pages 1101–1102:\", \"text\": \"[T]he diſtance of any place within this kingdom from it, will not much vary the manner of their Appearance in any of the Phænomena, except the Eclipſe of the Sun: for, in the Occultations, the Stars will appeare to paſs nearly under the ſame Angles and Spots of the Moon; […]\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1904 December, Melville Dozier, “[Transactions for November. III. Meetings of Sections.] 2. Section of Astronomy”, in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, volume III, number 9, Los Angeles, Calif.: Published for the Association by R. Baumgardt & Co. 231 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal., →OCLC, page 147:\", \"text\": \"The bright star Aldebaran is to be occulted by the moon on December 20th, at about 5 o'clock pm. Aldebaran is said to be eight hundred and eighty times the mass of the sun, with a diameter of over 8,000,000 miles; a distance so great that a meteor traveling at the rate of thirty miles per second, would require over three days to cross the disk of the star. Yet, notwithstanding the immense volume, the accultation will occur in a moment, so great is the distance of the star from us, and will continue for about one hour and eight minutes.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1994, C. B. Olkin, J[ames] L[udlow] Elliot, “Occultation Astrometry: Predictions and Post-event Results”, in L. V. Morrison, G. F. Gilmore, editors, Galactic and Solar System Optical Astrometry: Proceedings of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the Institute of Astronomy workshop held in Cambridge, June 21–24, 1993, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, abstract, page 286:\", \"text\": \"Stellar occultations potentially provide the highest precision data for relating solar system ephemerides to the stellar reference frame. For example, occultations by the Uranian rings can define the position of the occulted star relative to the rings to better than 0.02 mas (equivalent to a few hundred meters at the distance of Uranus). Occultations by atmospheres can be less precise than occultations by symmerical solid bodies, like rings and large asteroids, with a precision on the order of 1.0 mas.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"2010, David H. Levy, “When the Moon Occults a Star or a Planet”, in David Levy’s Guide to Eclipses, Occultations, and Transits, Cambridge, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 129:\", \"text\": \"[…] I was thrilled at the prospect of seeing the waning crescent Moon swing over Venus in the predawn sky on Wednesday morning, April 22, 2009. While the occultation was visible from much of North America, it was only in Arizona and parts of other surrounding states, where Wendee and I live, that the ingress would take place in a completely dark sky. It would be a highlight of the International Year of Astronomy, which reached its peak during 2009.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}], \"glosses\": [\"An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object.\"], \"links\": [[\"astronomy\", \"astronomy\"], [\"astronomical\", \"astronomical\"], [\"event\", \"event\"], [\"celestial object\", \"celestial object\"], [\"hidden\", \"hidden\"], [\"observer\", \"observer\"]], \"raw_glosses\": [\"(astronomy) An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object.\"], \"synonyms\": [{\"word\": \"eclipse\"}], \"tags\": [\"countable\", \"uncountable\"], \"topics\": [\"astronomy\", \"natural-sciences\"]}, {\"categories\": [\"English terms with quotations\"], \"examples\": [{\"ref\": \"1825 January, [Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey], “Art. I. Theodric, a Domestic Tale: With other Poems. By Thomas Campbell. 12mo. pp. 150. London, 1824.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLI, number LXXXII, Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs of D[avid] Willison, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, →OCLC:\", \"text\": \"If Mr. [Thomas] Campbell's poetry was of a kind that could be forgotten, his long fits of silence would put him fairly in the way of that misfortune. […] [T]he re-appearance of such an author, after those long periods of occultation, is naturally hailed as a novelty—and he receives the double welcome of a celebrated stranger and a remembered friend.\", \"type\": \"quote\"}, {\"ref\": \"1857 July, Thomas M. 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