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    New moon (redirect from Lunation Number)
    with lunation 0 beginning on 11 January 1001 BCE, and can be calculated using GLN = LN + 37105. The Hebrew Lunation Number is the count of lunations in...
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  • Lunate is a crescent or moon-shaped microlith. In the specialized terminology of lithic reduction, a lunate flake is a small, crescent-shaped flake removed...
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    Lunar month (redirect from Lunation)
    synod, i.e., a meeting"; in this case, of the Sun and the Moon), also lunation, is the average period of the Moon's orbit with respect to the line joining...
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  • the current lunation, the number of the lunation in a series of six, the current ruling lunar deity and the length of the current lunation. The Maya counted...
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    The lunate bone (semilunar bone) is a carpal bone in the human hand. It is distinguished by its deep concavity and crescentic outline. It is situated in...
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  • Sigma (redirect from Lunate sigma)
    letter S derives from sigma while the Cyrillic letter Es derives from a lunate form of this letter. The shape (Σς) and alphabetic position of sigma is...
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  • In astrology, planets have a meaning different from the astronomical understanding of what a planet is. Before the age of telescopes, the night sky was...
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    In brain anatomy, the lunate sulcus or simian sulcus, also known as the sulcus lunatus, is a fissure in the occipital lobe variably found in humans and...
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  • Epsilon (redirect from Lunate epsilon)
    is encoded U+03B5 ε GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON. The other, also known as lunate or uncial epsilon and inherited from earlier uncial writing, looks like...
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  • crescent moons and others employing detailed calculations. Since each lunation is approximately 29+1⁄2 days, it is common for the months of a lunar calendar...
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  • used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. The first crescent of the new moon provides a clear and regular marker...
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    scapholunate ligament is an intraarticular ligament binding the scaphoid and lunate bones of the wrist together. It is divided into three areas, dorsal, proximal...
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    The lunate surface of acetabulum is the articular surface of the acetabulum which makes contact with the femoral head as part of the hip joint. It forms...
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    columns: Radial scaphoid column: scaphoid, trapezium, and trapezoid Lunate column: lunate and capitate Ulnar triquetral column: triquetrum and hamate In this...
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    events useful for timekeeping, and in pre-modern societies around the world lunation and the year were most commonly used as time units. Nevertheless, the Roman...
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    in Vienna, Austria who described osteomalacia of the lunate in 1910. It is breakdown of the lunate bone, a carpal bone in the wrist that articulates with...
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    used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Such calendars include the Sumerian, Egyptian, Chinese, Babylonian, ancient...
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  • concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly...
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    path of the Moon, a week is 23.659% of an average lunation or 94.637% of an average quarter lunation. Historically, the system of dominical letters (letters...
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    same order only after 5,700,000 years, 70,499,183 lunations, or 2,081,882,250 days; the mean lunation length is then 2,081,882,250/70,499,183 = 29.53058690 days...
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    Zale lunata (redirect from Lunate Zale)
    Zale lunata, the lunate zale, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found throughout the east and...
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    wrist on the medial side of the proximal row of the carpus between the lunate and pisiform bones. It is on the ulnar side of the hand, but does not directly...
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    semi-lunar facet articulating with the lunate bone, and an inferior concave facet, articulating alongside the lunate with the head of the capitate bone....
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    calendars the world over were lunisolar, combining the solar year with the lunation by means of intercalary months. The Julian calendar abandoned this method...
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    S
    and several "red" alphabets. Σ: classical Greek letter Sigma Ϲ ϲ: Greek lunate sigma Ⲥ ⲥ : Coptic letter sima С с : Cyrillic letter Es, derived from a...
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    C
    and derivation, like the Cyrillic letter Es (С, с) which derives from the lunate sigma. When the Roman alphabet was introduced into Britain, ⟨c⟩ represented...
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    radius and under surface of the articular disk above; and the scaphoid, lunate, and triquetral bones below. The articular surface of the radius and the...
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  • year of such a calendar approximates the sidereal year. Leaping from one lunation to another, but one Sidereal year is the period between two occurrences...
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    cloak forming an arc above her head. Artemis was sometimes depicted with a lunate crown. Hecate was the goddess of crossroads, boundaries, ghosts and witchcraft...
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  • frequent stylistic variants, either shaped ϵ {\displaystyle \epsilon \,\!} ('lunate epsilon', like a semicircle with a stroke) or ε {\displaystyle \varepsilon...
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