Definition of Lunar crater

1. Noun. A crater on the Earth's Moon.

Specialized synonyms: Aristarchus, Copernicus
Generic synonyms: Crater

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunar Crater

lumpy
lumpy jaw
lumpy skin disease
lumpy skin disease virus
lums
luna
luna moth
lunacies
lunacy
lunanaut
lunanauts
lunar
lunar calendar
lunar cataclysm
lunar caustic
lunar crater (current term)
lunar day
lunar eclipse
lunar eclipses
lunar excursion module
lunar latitude
lunar module
lunar modules
lunar month
lunar occultation
lunar periodicity
lunar phase
lunar time period
lunar year
lunar years

Literary usage of Lunar crater

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
"To me a vastly more probable description of the origin of a lunar crater and its ... Whatever the beginnings of a volcanic lunar'crater may'have been there ..."

2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1868)
"... the lunar crater Linné. By the Rev. TW Webb. The very unfavourable weather which we have had for a long time has prevented me from turning to much ..."

3. The Intellectual Observer (1867)
"OBSCURATION OF A lunar crater. BT WE DIET, FRAS ALTHOUGH tho disappearance of a crater on the moon's surface mny not possess such an amount of interest as ..."

4. Popular Astronomy: A General Description of the Heavens by Camille Flammarion (1894)
"THE lunar crater COPERNICUS. (From a Drawing by Nasmyth) sun ; I observed and drew them during the eclipse oi October 10, 1874. At the lunar poles (where, ..."

5. The Observatory (1886)
"Account of further Observations of the lunar crater Plato in 1882-84. The S2)ots. Is the 'Observatory' for March, 1883, will be found a short «count of some ..."

6. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1868)
"After a careful review of the evidence, Dr. Schmidt concludes that the change which has taken place in this lunar crater corresponds, on a greatly magnified ..."

7. Astronomical Register (1868)
"... of a communication by Herr JF Julius Schmidt, Director of the Observatory at Athens, on " The lunar crater Linne," to the Astronomische Nachrichten. ..."

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