Usually means: Celestial body obscures another's view.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. eclipse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. eclipse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eclipse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eclipse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eclipse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eclipse, eclipse: Wordnik
  7. eclipse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eclipse: Wiktionary
  9. eclipse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eclipse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eclipse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. eclipse: Dictionary.com
  13. eclipse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eclipse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. eclipse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. eclipse: Rhymezone
  18. Eclipse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. eclipse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. eclipse: Free Dictionary
  21. eclipse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. eclipse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. eclipse: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Eclipse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eclipse: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ECLIPSE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. eclipse: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ECLIPSE: Acronym Finder
  3. eclipse: Idioms
  4. eclipse: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eclipse: Easton Bible

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Eclipse: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Eclipse: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. Weather Glossary (No longer online)
  6. ECLIPSE: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eclipse: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See eclipsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (astronomy) An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
noun:  Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
noun:  (ornithology) A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
noun:  Obscurity, decline, downfall.
verb:  (transitive) Of astronomical or atmospheric bodies, to cause an eclipse.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
verb:  (Irish grammar) To undergo eclipsis.

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