The conjunction or opposition of a planet with the sun, or of any two of the heavenly bodies. On the phenomena and circumstances of the syzygies, depends a great part of the lunar theory.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
2. The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek verse, an iambic syzygy.
3. Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on the outer, though visible on the inner, side.
4. The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation, //262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
Contiguity Roget’s Thesaurus §199
N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, # abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (see touch 379), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter
V. be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite) 43, link (vinculum) 45
Adj. contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent|, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval, 2, linear dimensions
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