Usually means: Alignment of three celestial bodies.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word syzygy:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. syzygy: Merriam-Webster
  2. syzygy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. syzygy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. syzygy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. syzygy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Syzygy, syzygy: Wordnik
  7. syzygy: Wiktionary
  8. syzygy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. syzygy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. syzygy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. syzygy: Dictionary.com
  12. syzygy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Syzygy (Gnosticism), Syzygy (The X-Files), Syzygy (album), Syzygy (astronomy), Syzygy (band), Syzygy (mathematics), Syzygy (meiosis), Syzygy (poetry), Syzygy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Syzygy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. syzygy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. syzygy: Rhymezone
  17. Syzygy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. syzygy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. syzygy: FreeDictionary.org
  20. syzygy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. syzygy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. syzygy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Syzygy: World Wide Words

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syzygy: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. syzygy, syzygy: A Word A Day
  2. syzygy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Syzygy: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Syzygy: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. syzygy: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SYZYGY: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See syzygies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (syzygy)

noun:  (astronomy, astrology) 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.
noun:  (Jungian psychology) An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds.
noun:  (mathematics, linear algebra) A relation between generators of a module.
noun:  (medicine) The fusion of some or all of the organs.
noun:  (zoology) The association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material.
noun:  (genetics) The pairing of chromosomes in meiosis.
noun:  (Gnosticism) Complementary female–male pairings of the emanations known as Aeons.

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