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zodiacal light en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A soft glow of white light seen in the sky along the ecliptic in an elongated triangular form with its base being on the horizon, particularly in the tropics.
   • I also, this morning gave attention to the stars as seen through the Zodiacal Light, and found, even to 4ʰ 30ᵐ, when the effulgent Light below the zigzag lines is very strong, that with the naked eye I could readily make out stars of the 6th magnitude within the effulgent Light; [...] 1856, George Jones, “No. 271. December 30th, 1854: Morning.”, in Observations on the Zodiacal Light, from April 2, 1853, to April 22, 1855, Made Chiefly on Board the United States Steam-Frigate Mississippi, during Her Late Cruise in Eastern Seas, and Her Voyage Homeward: With Conclusions from the Data thus Obtained (Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, […]; III; 33d Congress, 2d Session, Senate Ex. Doc. no. 79), Washington, D.C.: Beverley Tucker, senate printer, →OCLC, page 542:
   • Westward I saw the zodiacal light mingling with the yellow brilliance of the evening star. 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Thing in the Forest”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC, pages 81–82:

Forms

Deriveds

exozodiacal light

Relateds

zodiacal dust · exozodiacal dust · Kordylewski cloud · zodiacal cloud · gegenschein

Translations (11)

fi eläinratavalo (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · ro lumină zodiacală (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · ru зодиака́льный свет (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · ko 황도광 (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · cs zvířetníkové světlo (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · sv zodiakalljus (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · bn সুবহে কাযিব (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · pl światło zodiakalne (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · fr lumière zodiacale (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · es luz zodiacal (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics) · ar اَلْفَجْر اَلْكَاذِب (soft glow of white light extending upward from the horizon along the ecliptic, particularly in the tropics)