Noun an eclipse of the sun The popularity of television led to the eclipse of the radio drama. an artist whose reputation has long been in eclipseVerb The sun was partially eclipsed by the moon. Train travel was eclipsed by the growth of commercial airlines.
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Noun
Days 11 and 12 will be spent at sea, allowing the ship to station itself directly in the path of the eclipse. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2022 The more dust or clouds in the Earth's atmosphere at the time of the eclipse, the more red the moon will appear. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 12 May 2022 The visible part of the eclipse will start around 10:27 p.m. Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022 Sometimes the moon appears more rusty orange or red, all depending on the nature of the atmosphere at the time of the eclipse. Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022 The full eclipse will last almost 90 minutes, and the whole event will end at 5:56 a.m.oregonlive, 2 Jan. 2022 The 18 years, 11 days difference means their date drifts 11 days forward for each subsequent eclipse, and the eight hours means that the Earth rotates a third, so the path shifts roughly 120º west. Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 June 2021 Egan cautioned that some locals may not experience the eclipse’s full effect.Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2022 Sandy Koufax’s perfect game, Kirk Gibson’s World Series heroics and Hank Aaron’s eclipse of the all-time home run record. David Wharton, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2022
Verb
After Vikings: Valhalla, no show has been able to eclipse 160 million hours of watch time. Travis Bean, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 This decline in issuance, in turn, means Ethereum could eclipse Bitcoin in market cap over the next 12 months, according to an Aug. 12 report by research firm FSInsight. Taylor Locke, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022 The show already has one leg up on The Ultimatum, which couldn’t eclipse Bridgerton to reach the #1 position until its second day of availability. Travis Bean, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022 The details of the contract structure haven’t been revealed, but it could be considered a mild surprise that Samuel’s numbers didn’t eclipse those of Metcalf, given the dual role Samuel assumed last year. Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 July 2022 They’re scheduled to die at a fast clip — about one each month through December 2024 — a rate that would eclipse the number of executions by all states combined since 2020. Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 29 July 2022 Some areas of eastern Washington state and interior Oregon could see temperatures eclipse 110 degrees this week. Greg Scruggs, Washington Post, 27 July 2022 Propper moved to Austin in 2016, a place where the temperatures can eclipse a hundred degrees during the summer’s peak—a climate more suitable for lizards than for hydrated humans.The New Yorker, 15 July 2022 About 40 million people from California to Texas are sweltering amid a dangerous heat wave that threatens to match or eclipse daily high-temperature records through the weekend. Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 11 June 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
borrowed from Middle English eclipse, clips, borrowed from Anglo-French eclyps, eclypse, borrowed from Latin eclīpsis, borrowed from Greek ékleipsis "abandonment, failure, cessation, obscuring of a celestial body by another," from ekleípein "to leave out, abandon, cease, die, be obscured (of a celestial body)" (from ek-ec- + leípein "to leave, quit, be missing") + -sis-sis — more at delinquent entry 2
Verb
Middle English eclypsen, clypsen, derivative of eclipseeclipse entry 1, probably after Medieval Latin eclīpsāre or Middle French esclipser