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Definition of gibbous in English: gibbousadjective ˈɡɪbəs 1(of the moon) having the illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle. Example sentencesExamples - My hand was clasped around hers, and the light of the gibbous moon set a silver path out before us.
- On the 16th Jupiter appears to the upper left of the waxing gibbous Moon.
- The moon is gibbous and yellow down at the end of the main street.
- The year is on the wane, has passed its gibbous phase and is now into that delicate fingernail-clipping shape that children draw in pictures to denote the moon.
- The waxing gibbous moon was still behind the scudding clouds, but it was far from pitch dark.
- 1.1 Convex or protuberant.
Example sentencesExamples - The male hooded merganser, with his distinct gibbous moon crest, demands immediate attention.
Derivatives noun ɡɪˈbɒsɪtiɡəˈbɑsədi Females of this species also lack the tendency towards frontal gibbosity shown by males.
adverb Early in the week the Moon waxes gibbously, and later in the week, after full, gibbously wanes. Example sentencesExamples - We will see the Moon waxing in its gibbous phase the early part of the week, while the last two days see it gibbously waning.
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Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin gibbosus, from Latin gibbus 'hump'. Definition of gibbous in US English: gibbousadjective 1(of the moon) having the observable illuminated part greater than a semicircle and less than a circle. Example sentencesExamples - My hand was clasped around hers, and the light of the gibbous moon set a silver path out before us.
- The moon is gibbous and yellow down at the end of the main street.
- The waxing gibbous moon was still behind the scudding clouds, but it was far from pitch dark.
- On the 16th Jupiter appears to the upper left of the waxing gibbous Moon.
- The year is on the wane, has passed its gibbous phase and is now into that delicate fingernail-clipping shape that children draw in pictures to denote the moon.
- 1.1 Convex or protuberant.
Example sentencesExamples - The male hooded merganser, with his distinct gibbous moon crest, demands immediate attention.
Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin gibbosus, from Latin gibbus ‘hump’. |