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Meaning of 复圆

复圆 means last contact (astronomy); the moment during a solar or lunar eclipse when the moon's shadow and the sun's disk (or earth's shadow and moon's disk) are last externally tangent, marking the end of the eclipse. Pronounced fù yuán.

  • last contact (astronomy); the moment during a solar or lunar eclipse when the moon's shadow and the sun's disk (or earth's shadow and moon's disk) are last externally tangent, marking the end of the eclipse

Definitions & Examples

quán
shí
de
yuán
biāo
zhì
zhe
zhè
tiān
wén
guān
de
jié
shù
 

The last contact of the total solar eclipse marks the end of this astronomical spectacle.

Guān
zhě
xīng
fèn
de
xià
yuán
de
què
qiè
shí
 

The observers excitedly recorded the exact moment of last contact.

Cóng
chū
kuī
dào
yuán
 
zhěng
shí
guò
chéng
chí
le
yuē
sān
xiǎo
shí
 

From first contact to last contact, the entire solar eclipse process lasted about three hours.

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