solar eclipse

noun

: an eclipse of the sun by the moon see eclipse illustration

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Here's how the 2026 total eclipse will compare Partial solar eclipse September 2025: Live updates 1 week until the 1st solar eclipse of 2025. Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 June 2025 Southern Oregon is smack in the middle of the upcoming annular solar eclipse on October 14. Julia Duin, Outside Online, 6 June 2025 An international study revealed that trees, particularly older ones, display a coordinated, anticipatory response to solar eclipses—signaling to each other with bioelectrical pulses in a manner likened to J.R.R. Tolkien's sentient Ents from his classic The Lord of the Rings series. Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 May 2025 But people in 13 states – from West Virginia to Maine – could get a view of the partial solar eclipse beginning early Saturday about 4:50 a.m. EDT through 8:43 a.m., according to the website Time and Date. Mike Snider, USA Today, 29 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for solar eclipse

Word History

First Known Use

1602, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of solar eclipse was in 1602

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“Solar eclipse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solar%20eclipse. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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solar eclipse

noun
: an eclipse of the sun by the moon

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