Baily's beads en · NOUN
Etymology
In honour of Francis Baily, who first fully explained the phenomenon in 1836.
Meanings
- (plural, plural-only) A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.
Translations (3)
cmn 貝里珠串 (Baily's beads) · cmn 倍里珠 (Baily's beads) · ja ベイリー・ビーズ (Baily's beads)