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solar maculation

solar maculation noun: sunspots.

Noun

solar maculation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Sunspots.
    • The idea that solar maculation depends in some way upon the position of the planets occurred to Galileo in 1612.1885, Agnes M. Clerke, chapter 2, in A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, page 208

Questions about solar maculation

What does solar maculation mean?
Solar maculation means sunspots.
What part of speech is solar maculation?
Solar maculation is a noun.

Words near solar maculation in the dictionary

  1. solar lamps
  2. solar letter
  3. solar letters
  4. solar luminosities
  5. solar luminosity
  6. solar maculation
  7. solar mass
  8. solar masses
  9. solar maxima
  10. solar maximum
  11. solar microscope

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