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noun

Occultation n.

(Astron.) The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

(Fig.:) The state of being occult. "The reappearance of such an author after those long periods of occultation."

Circle of perpetual occultation. See under Circle.

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Etymology of 'Occultation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Occultation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Whitbread, Major Keppel, and Lord Mahon—separately told me the impression made on them by this actress was such that they could not sleep afterwards! I had no trial how this would be with me, because we went off from the playhouse to Sir James South's, to see the occultation of Jupiter's satellites: that was indeed a sublime reality, and no wonder we were ...

— The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... greatest height capable of refracting the solar ray, to be 5,376 feet. My ideas on this topic had also received confirmation by a passage in the eighty-second volume of the Philosophical Transactions, in which it is stated that at an occultation of Jupiter's satellites, the third disappeared after having been about 1" or 2" of time indistinct, and the fourth became indiscernible ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... star or planet becoming visible after occultation. Perpetual apparition of the lesser northern circles, wherein the stars being ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

Words linked to "Occultation" : solar eclipse, ingress, total eclipse, egress, break, partial eclipse, interruption, eclipse, lunar eclipse