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Syzygy

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Gr. aui'uyia, a yoking together, from aiv, together, and root ?'uy-, yoke), in astronomy, either of the points at which the moon is most nearly in a line with the sun. The moon passes her syzygies, or is in a syzygy, at new and full moon.

3 Theocritus, Brunck, Analecta veto. poet. graec. i. 304.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Syzygy'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​s/syzygy.html. 1910.
 
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