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Maunder minimum
Maunder minimumn. A period of unusually low sunspot activity lasting from approximately 1645 to 1715, corresponding roughly to the middle and coldest portion of the Little Ice Age.
[After Edward Walter Maunder (1851-1928), British astronomer who identified it in records of sunspot activity from the time.]TranslationsMaunder minimum
Maunder minimum (mawn -der) See sunspot cycle.maunder minimum[′mȯn·dər ′min·ə·məm] (astronomy) A period of time from about 1650 to 1710 when the sun did not appear to have sunspots. |