INFERIOR CONJUNCTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("inferior conjunction" is a kind of...):

alignment; conjunction ((astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

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