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The first day of the second moon of the Water Dragon Year.
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Said moon-let being, of course, that irrational moment when Pascow had spoken.
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The moon glides up in the north; the rocks cast gigantic shadows.
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I'm surprised the market just isn't going to the moon right now.
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You mentioned several different resources that could be found on the moon.
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The Hebrew month was also the lunar month of approximately twenty-eight days.
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Neap tide: the least rise and fall during the lunar month.
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Moreover, you ate my buffalo on the eighth day of the lunar month.
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The massage is said to take place at the beginning of a lunar month.
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There must be two Ashtamis in every lunar month.
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If asked, one should not say what the lunation is on a particular day.
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And there is not the moon seen in all the lunation, save only the second quarter.
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The next simplest period, the mooneth or month, is also thrust upon men's notice by the conspicuous changes constituting a lunation.
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The calendar is constructed on the assumptions that the mean lunation is 29 days 12 hours 44 min.
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The lunations are estimated with much greater precision.
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Distant periods they calculated by the solar year, but for short intervals they reckoned by lunations.
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3⅓ sec., is the exact measure of 235 of the assumed lunations.
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On the other hand, the Assyrian cycle was 1805 years, or 22,325 lunations.
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Or, more accurately - 442 d. 23 h. = 15 lunations.
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235 average lunations make 6939 days 16 hours 31 minutes.
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The excellent joints of that wheel are the parva days, viz., those sacred lunations on which religious rites are performed.
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43 min, which is the time occupied by the moon in completing her phases, and is known as a lunar month or a lunation.