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ZODIACAL LIGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does zodiacal light mean?
• ZODIACAL LIGHT (noun)
The noun ZODIACAL LIGHT has 1 sense:
1. a luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset
Familiarity information: ZODIACAL LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("zodiacal light" is a kind of...):
reflection; reflexion (the phenomenon of a propagating wave (light or sound) being thrown back from a surface)
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