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moon-quake

moon-quake is the alternative form of moonquake.

Meaning of moonquake

Noun

moonquake (plural moonquakes)

  1. A seismic event occurring on the moon; the lunar equivalent of an earthquake.
    • Moonquakes and meteorite strikes could damage a reactor, but the chances are slim.2025 August 8, Chandelis Duster, Geoff Brumfiel, “NASA plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Here's what that means”, in NPR

Forms of moon-quake

pluralmoon-quakes

Questions about moon-quake

What is moon-quake the alternative form of?
Moon-quake is the alternative form of moonquake.

Words near moon-quake in the dictionary

  1. moon-moon
  2. moon-moons
  3. moon-phase
  4. moon-pool
  5. moon-pools
  6. moon-quake
  7. moon-quakes
  8. moon-rise
  9. moon-rises
  10. moon-set
  11. moon-sets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moon-quake (page history and authors); moonquake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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