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Definition of Syzygy
1. Noun. The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.
Definition of Syzygy
1. n. The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
2. n. The intimately united and apparently fused condition of certain low organisms during conjugation.
Definition of Syzygy
1. Noun. (context: astronomy astrology) A kind of unity, namely 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 ¹
2. Noun. (psychology) An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds ¹
3. Noun. (mathematics) A relation between generators of a module ¹
4. Noun. (medicine) The fusion of some or all of the organs ¹
5. Noun. (zoology) The association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material ¹
6. Noun. (zoology) The pairing of chromosomes in meiosis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Syzygy
1. the configuration of the earth, moon, and sun lying in a straight line [n -GIES] : SYZYGAL, SYZYGIAL [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Syzygy
Literary usage of Syzygy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1896)
"precisely equal to the number of congregates: viz. each such syzygy may be ...
The syzygy is irreducible or reducible ; and in the latter case it is, ..."
2. An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott (1895)
"syzygy among the invariants. The four invariants 74, 78, 7!2, 718, ... connected by
a syzygy. This may be expected to give the square of 718 in terms of the ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Pertaining to a syzygy: belonging to or depending upon the moon s position in
the line of ... Having the character of the articulation called a syzygy. ..."
4. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society by London Mathematical Society (1898)
"... syzygy must have the form where a, /3, ..., X are numerical. The coefficients
of the highest power of uu viz., of M,, must be the same on the two sides. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"... there was a marked tendency to increase at quadrature and to decrease at
syzygy, both in the amount of ram and in the number of rainy days. ..."
6. The Algebra of Invariants by John Hilton Grace, Alfred Young (1903)
"We will obtain such a syzygy from that of weight 3, If X, p, ... It will be seen
at once that ax} bx, cx, dx are factors of this syzygy, we may then divide ..."
7. The Algebra of Invariants by John Hilton Grace, Alfred Young (1903)
"In general in the syzygy each of the forms/I,^, f2, fl must be of order i at least
... We will obtain such a syzygy from that of weight 3, If X, fj,, ..."
8. The Algebra of Invariants by John Hilton Grace, Alfred Young (1903)
"In general in the syzygy (AAAA-o each of the forms f1, f2, f2, f4 must be of
order i at ... We will obtain such a syzygy from that of weight 3, If X, p, ..."
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