lunar phase

English

File:Mosaique des phases de la lune.jpg

Overview of the lunar phases.

Noun

lunar phase (plural lunar phases)

1. (astronomy) Any one of the aspects or appearances presented by the moon as seen from Earth.

Related terms

• Lunar phases:

• dark moon
• first quarter moon
• full moon
• gibbous moon
• last quarter moon
• new moon
• waning crescent moon
• waning gibbous moon
• waxing crescent moon
• waxing gibbous moon

Translations

any one of the aspects presented by the moon

• Catalan: fase lunar f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 月相 (zh) (yuèxiàng)

• Czech: fáze měsíce f
• Danish: månefase c
• Dutch: schijngestalte van de Maan f
• Esperanto: luna fazo
• Estonian: kuu faas
• French: phase lunaire f
• Galician: fase lunar f
• German: Mondphase (de) f
• Greek: σεληνιακή φάση f (seliniakí fási)
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• Hungarian: holdfázis
• Italian: fase lunare f
• Japanese: 月相 (げっそう, gessō), 月の位相 (つきのいそう, tsuki no isō)
• Korean: 달의 위상 (dal-ui wisang), 월상 (wolsang) (月相)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: månefase (no) m

  Nynorsk: månefase m

• Portuguese: fase da lua
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} fază lunară
• Russian: фа́за Луны f (fáza Luny), лунная фа́за f (lunnaja fáza)
• Spanish: fase lunar f
• Swedish: månfas c