"syzygy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɪz.ɪ.d͡ʒi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-syzygy.wav [Southern-England] Forms: syzygies [plural]
Etymology: From Late Latin sȳzygia (“conjunction”), from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía, “union, yoke, pair”). This word was recognized as English in 1847 (in its astronomical meaning). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|sȳzygia||conjunction}} Late Latin sȳzygia (“conjunction”), {{der|en|grc|συζυγία||union, yoke, pair}} Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía, “union, yoke, pair”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} syzygy (countable and uncountable, plural syzygies)
  1. (astronomy, astrology) An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Astrology, Astronomy Translations (astronomical conjunction): συζυγία (suzugía) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), сізігія (sizihija) [feminine] (Belarusian), sizígia [feminine] (Catalan), 朔望點 (Chinese Mandarin), 朔望点 (Shuòwàng diǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), syzygie [common-gender] (Danish), syzygie [feminine] (Dutch), sizigio (Esperanto), syzygie [feminine] (French), sicixia [feminine] (Galician), Syzygie [feminine] (German), Syzygium [neuter] (German), συζυγία (syzygía) [feminine] (Greek), युति-वियुति (yuti-viyuti) (Hindi), raðstaða [feminine] (Icelandic), okstaða [feminine] (Icelandic), sizigio (Ido), sisige [feminine] (Irish), sisigí [feminine, plural] (Irish), sizigia [feminine] (Italian), 惑星直列 (Japanese), 朔望 (Sakubō) (Japanese), 혹성 직렬 (hokseong jingnyeol) (Korean), 행성 직렬 (haengseong jingnyeol) (Korean), 삭망 (sangmang) (alt: 朔望) (Korean), syzygia [feminine] (Latin), сизи́гија (sizígija) [feminine] (Macedonian), sizigi (Malay), സിസിജി (sisiji) (Malayalam), همیوغی (hamyuği) (Persian), اتصال (etesâl) (Persian), پیوند (peyvand) (Persian), پیوستن (peyvastan) (Persian), syzygium (Polish), sizígia [feminine] (Portuguese), sizigie [feminine] (Romanian), сизигия (sizigija) [feminine] (Russian), संयोग (saṃyoga) [masculine] (Sanskrit), sizigia [feminine] (Spanish), syzygie [common-gender] (Swedish), konjunktion [common-gender] (Swedish), இணைவு (iṇaivu) (Tamil), сизи́гія (syzýhija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), sóc vọng (alt: 朔望) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-syzygy-en-noun-n9qWPj8l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 12 12 4 24 12 Topics: astrology, astronomy, human-sciences, mysticism, natural-sciences, philosophy, sciences Disambiguation of 'astronomical conjunction': 50 4 15 9 12 10
  2. (Jungian psychology) An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Psychology
    Sense id: en-syzygy-en-noun-bPaTgFFS
  3. (mathematics, linear algebra) A relation between generators of a module. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Linear algebra, Mathematics
    Sense id: en-syzygy-en-noun-VqPr2lj8 Topics: linear-algebra, mathematics, sciences
  4. (medicine) The fusion of some or all of the organs. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-syzygy-en-noun-z0Du3CuR Topics: medicine, sciences
  5. (zoology) The association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Zoology
    Sense id: en-syzygy-en-noun-qLcL7F6e Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
  6. (genetics) The pairing of chromosomes in meiosis. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Genetics
    Sense id: en-syzygy-en-noun-qnqanvex Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: asterism, occultation

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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.