Definitions for phase of the moon
phase of the moon

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. phase of the moonnoun

   a time when the Moon presents a particular recurring appearance

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1. phase of the moon

   The phase of the moon refers to the shape of the illuminated portion of the Moon as seen by an observer, usually on earth. These phases change cyclically as the Moon orbits the Earth, according to the changing positions of the Moon and the Sun relative to the Earth. The cycle consists of various stages, namely new moon, crescent moon, first quarter moon, gibbous moon, full moon and then reversing through these stages.

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1. phase of the moon

   Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend. Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be dependent on conditions nobody has been able to determine. “This feature depends on having the channel open in mumble mode, having the foo switch set, and on the phase of the moon.” See also heisenbug.True story: Once upon a time there was a program bug that really did depend on the phase of the moon. There was a little subroutine that had traditionally been used in various programs at MIT to calculate an approximation to the moon's true phase. GLS incorporated this routine into a LISP program that, when it wrote out a file, would print a timestamp line almost 80 characters long. Very occasionally the first line of the message would be too long and would overflow onto the next line, and when the file was later read back in the program would barf. The length of the first line depended on both the precise date and time and the length of the phase specification when the timestamp was printed, and so the bug literally depended on the phase of the moon!The first paper edition of the Jargon File (Steele-1983) included an example of one of the timestamp lines that exhibited this bug, but the typesetter ‘corrected’ it. This has since been described as the phase-of-the-moon-bug bug.However, beware of assumptions. A few years ago, engineers of CERN (European Center for Nuclear Research) were baffled by some errors in experiments conducted with the LEP particle accelerator. As the formidable amount of data generated by such devices is heavily processed by computers before being seen by humans, many people suggested the software was somehow sensitive to the phase of the moon. A few desperate engineers discovered the truth; the error turned out to be the result of a tiny change in the geometry of the 27km circumference ring, physically caused by the deformation of the Earth by the passage of the Moon! This story has entered physics folklore as a Newtonian vengeance on particle physics and as an example of the relevance of the simplest and oldest physical laws to the most modern science.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of phase of the moon in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of phase of the moon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=phase of the moon
2. ^ ChatGPT
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3. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#PhaseoftheMoon