Usually means: Celestial body passes in front.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word occultation:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. occultation: Merriam-Webster
  2. occultation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. occultation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. occultation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. occultation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Occultation, occultation: Wordnik
  7. occultation: Wiktionary
  8. occultation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. occultation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. occultation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. occultation: Dictionary.com
  12. Occultation (Islam), Occultation, The Occultation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Occultation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. occultation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. occultation: Rhymezone
  16. Occultation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. occultation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. occultation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. occultation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. occultation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. occultation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Occultation (astronomy), occultation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Occultation (astronomy), occultation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. occultation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. occultation: A Word A Day

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Occultation: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Occultation: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Occultation: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. OCCULTATION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)

(Note: See occultations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (occultation)

noun:  (astronomy) An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object.
noun:  The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”).
noun:  (Shia Islam) The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time.

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