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Definition: ECLIPSING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb eclipse.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(eclipse)		 1. Be greater in significance than.[Wordnet].
2. Cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today".[Wordnet].
3. Exceed in importance; outweigh; "This problem overshadows our lives right now".[Wordnet].
4. To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.[Websters].
5. To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.[Websters].
6. To suffer an eclipse.[Websters].
7. Base verb from the following inflections: eclipsing, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipser, eclipsers, eclipsingly and eclipsedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective 1. Being surpassing. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being glooming. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being blinding or dazzling.[Eve - graph theoretic]

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Date "Eclipsing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1692. (references)

Specialty Definition: ECLIPSING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Concealing; obscuring; darkening; clouding.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Verb] Present participle of eclipse. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Expressions: ECLIPSING

Expressions Domain Definition
Eclipsing binary Aerospace A binary star system in which the stars eclipse each other. (references)
Eclipsing binary star Aerospace A pair of stars in which the dimmer one regularly passes in front of and then behind the brighter one, decreasing and increasing the visible light from the pair in a sequential pattern. (references)

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Topics by Level of Interest: ECLIPSING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search 15     Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search 15

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: eclipsing
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 clouding, overshadowing, shading, dwarfing.
Consider also: dimming, transcending, exceeding, excelling, obscuring, outweighing, dominating, topping, blacking, covering, fogging, shrouding, effacing, shadowing.

Adjective

 darkening, surpassing, occulting.
Consider also: blotting.

Noun

 occultation.
Consider also: curtaining, capping, veiling, eclipse.
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Computed Synonyms: eclipsing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   24.3093   eclipsing     shading     shadowing, tinting, ghosting, screening, huing   
 2   21.3090   eclipsing     obscurationing     blackouting, glooming, obscuring, shadowing, shading   
 3   16.4093   eclipsing     surpassing     exceeding, passing, outstripping, outmatching, outclassing   
 4   16.3092   eclipsing     blackouting     fainting, swooning, dazing, obscurationing, outaging   
 5   11.3091   eclipsing     adumbrating     shadowing, adumbrate, overshadowing, tracing, foreshadowing   
 6   10.3194   eclipsing     excelling     outrivalling, coruscating, passing, bettering, outnumbering   
 7   9.3095   eclipsing     beclouding     obfuscating, shading, shadowing, overclouding, bedimming   
 8   7.3094   eclipsing     screening     shielding, sieving, covering, riddling, fencinging   
 9   7.3094   eclipsing     topping     summiting, apexing, cresting, top, ridging   
 10   7.3094   eclipsing     occulting     coverting, obscuring, weirding, darking, closing   
 11   7.3094   eclipsing     glooming     darking, gloom, glooms, murking, gloomed   
 12   6.3192   eclipsing     extinguishing     quashing, quenching, exterminating, choking, killing   
 13   6.3094   eclipsing     bedimming     dimming, blurring, obscuring, obfuscating, fogging   
 14   6.3092   eclipsing     outstripping     overreaching, exceeding, outbalancing, outstrip, exceed   
 15   6.3091   eclipsing     disappearing     vanishing, disappear, receding, escaping, evaporating   
--------------------     392 synonyms ranked from 16 to 407 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: eclipsing

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0092   eclipsing     to upstage     upstage, to outshine, outshine   
 2   1.0091   eclipsing     to outshine     outshine, excel, shine   
 3   1.0091   eclipsing     to dim     dim, to dim out, to pale   
 4   1.0090   eclipsing     to shade     to screen, shade, dazzle   
 5   1.0089   eclipsing     to becloud     to obfuscate, clouding, becloud   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top
Antonyms: eclipsing
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 brightening, explaining, failing, disclosing.

Noun

 clearing.
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Translations: ECLIPSING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya خُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic), أَكْسَفَ (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing), كُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha خُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic), أَكْسَفَ (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing), كُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic خُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic), أَكْسَفَ (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing), كُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese eclipsando (outshining, overshadowing, upstaging, eclipsing). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Danish fotometrisk dobbeltstjerne (eclipsing binary). Additional references: Central Danish, Denmark, Germany, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 暗然失色 (eclipsing). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Danish fotometrisk dobbeltstjerne (eclipsing binary). Additional references: Danish, Denmark, Germany, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Dansk fotometrisk dobbeltstjerne (eclipsing binary). Additional references: Dansk, Denmark, Germany, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch verfinsternd (eclipsing, obfuscating), verdunkeln (darken, to darken, obscure, becloud, dim). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish Pimennysmuuttuja (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Français éclipsant (outshining, overshadowing, eclipsing), binaire à éclipses (eclipsing binary), étoile à éclipse (eclipsing binary star), étoile double photométrique (eclipsing binary), éclipse d'écho (eclipsing loss). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
French éclipsant (outshining, overshadowing, eclipsing), binaire à éclipses (eclipsing binary), étoile à éclipse (eclipsing binary star), étoile double photométrique (eclipsing binary), éclipse d'écho (eclipsing loss). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
German verfinsternd (eclipsing, obfuscating), verdunkeln (darken, to darken, obscure, becloud, dim). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic خُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic), أَكْسَفَ (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing), كُسُوف (eclipse, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsing, ecliptic). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
High German verfinsternd (eclipsing, obfuscating), verdunkeln (darken, to darken, obscure, becloud, dim). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch verfinsternd (eclipsing, obfuscating), verdunkeln (darken, to darken, obscure, becloud, dim). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 食 (diet, eclipse, food, foodstuff, meal), 食連星 (eclipsing variable), しょくれんせい (eclipsing variable), 食変光星 (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Norwegian Å formørking (clouding, eclipsing). Additional references: Norwegian, Norway, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Polish gwiazda zmienna zaćmieniowa (eclipsing variable star), gwiazda podwójna zaćmieniowa (eclipsing binary star). Additional references: Polish, Poland, Czech Republic, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Polnisch gwiazda zmienna zaćmieniowa (eclipsing variable star), gwiazda podwójna zaćmieniowa (eclipsing binary star). Additional references: Polnisch, Poland, Czech Republic, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Polski gwiazda zmienna zaćmieniowa (eclipsing variable star), gwiazda podwójna zaćmieniowa (eclipsing binary star). Additional references: Polski, Poland, Czech Republic, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese eclipsando (upstaging, outshining, overshadowing, eclipsing), Binária eclipsante (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Sjaelland fotometrisk dobbeltstjerne (eclipsing binary). Additional references: Sjaelland, Denmark, Germany, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovak Zákrytová dvojhviezda (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Slovak, Slovakia, Hungary, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovakian Zákrytová dvojhviezda (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Slovakian, Slovakia, Hungary, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish eclipsar (upstage, blot, eclipse, outshine, overshadow), eclipsado binario (eclipsing binary). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea Pimennysmuuttuja (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi Pimennysmuuttuja (Eclipsing binary). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), eclipsing. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: ECLIPSING

Language Translations for “eclipsing” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athageclathagipsathaging (eclipsing). Additional references: Athag, eclipsing. (volunteer)
Double Dutch ageclagipsaging (eclipsing). Additional references: Double Dutch, eclipsing. (volunteer)
Leet 3[|_¦|º§¦^/9 (eclipsing). Additional references: Leet, eclipsing. (volunteer)
Oppish opeclopipsoping (eclipsing). Additional references: Oppish, eclipsing. (volunteer)
Pig Latin eclipsingway (eclipsing). Additional references: Pig Latin, eclipsing. (volunteer)
Terran B eclipsand (eclipsing). Additional references: Terran B, eclipsing. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubeclubipsubing (eclipsing). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, eclipsing. (volunteer)
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