eclipse
Definitions of eclipse
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one celestial body obscures anothertypes:eclipse totalan eclipse as seen from a place where the eclipsed body is completely obscuredeclipse parcialan eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscuredeclipse anularonly a thin outer disk of the sun can be seentype of:
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