| 单词 |
moonlet |
| 释义 |
moonlet|ˈmuːnlɪt|
[f. moon n.1 + -let.]
A little moon. Also, an artificial satellite.
1832Motherwell Poems 47, I pledge thee in the silver horn Of yonder moonlet bright. 1891Cassell's Fam. Mag. Dec. 55/1 The satellites of satellites, the little moonlets of the moons. 1895[see impact crater]. 1955Sci. News Let. 13 Aug. 107/2 The man-made moonlets will circle the earth many times every day, appearing to rise in the west and set in the east, reversing other sky phenomena. 1965J. Blish Mission to Heart Stars ii. 27 Since Phobos always kept the same face turned towards Mars, there would be no need to bother stumbling around on the dark side of the moonlet. 1971Sci. Amer. Jan. 47/1 Was the heat provided by the impact of meteorites or of a larger celestial body, or by the collision of ‘moonlets’ to form the present moon?
Hence † ˈmoonleted a. Bot. = lunate.
1787tr. Linnæus' Fam. Pl. 385 Isopyrum... Capsules many, moonletted, recurved, one-cell'd. |
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