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Princeton's WordNet
moonlessadjective
without a moon or a visible moon
"the dark moonless night"; "a moonless planet"
Wiktionary
moonlessadjective
During which no phase of the Moon is visible to provide light
moonlessadjective
Having no orbitting moon
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Moonlessadjective
Not enlightened by the moon.
Etymology: from moon.
Assisted by a friend, one moonless night,
This Palamon from prison took his flight. Dryden.
Wikipedia
moonless
In astronomy, the new moon is the first lunar phase, when the Moon and Sun have the same ecliptic longitude. At this phase, the lunar disk is not visible to the naked eye, except when it is silhouetted against the Sun during a solar eclipse. The original meaning of the term 'new moon', which is still sometimes used in calendrical, non-astronomical contexts, is the first visible crescent of the Moon after conjunction with the Sun. This thin waxing crescent is briefly and faintly visible as the Moon gets lower in the western sky after sunset. The precise time and even the date of the appearance of the new moon by this definition will be influenced by the geographical location of the observer. The first crescent marks the beginning of the month in the Islamic calendar and in some lunisolar calendars such as the Hebrew calendar. In the Chinese calendar, the beginning of the month is marked by the last visible crescent of a waning Moon. The astronomical new moon occurs by definition at the moment of conjunction in ecliptical longitude with the Sun when the Moon is invisible from the Earth. This moment is unique and does not depend on location, and in certain circumstances, it coincides with a solar eclipse. A lunation, or synodic month, is the time period from one new moon to the next. At the J2000.0 epoch, the average length of a lunation is 29.53059 days (or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds). However, the length of any one synodic month can vary from 29.26 to 29.80 days (12.96 hours) due to the perturbing effects of the Sun's gravity on the Moon's eccentric orbit.
Webster Dictionary
Moonlessadjective
being without a moon or moonlight
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of moonless in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of moonless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of moonless in a Sentence
You can already detect streetlights at certain wavelengths, if you were to stand up here on a dark, moonless night, you would see urban areas in the distance, and even what you can see just by the naked eye is very, very significant.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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