accultation

English

Etymology

Probably a variant of occultation.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: ac‧cul‧ta‧tion

Noun

accultation (countable and uncountable, plural accultations)

  1. (rare) Alternative spelling of occultation.
    • 1904 December, Melville Dozier, “[Transactions for November. III. Meetings of Sections.] 2. Section of Astronomy”, in Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, volume III, number 9, Los Angeles, Calif.: Published for the Association by R. Baumgardt & Co. 231 West First St., Los Angeles, Cal., OCLC 921919756, page 147:
      The bright star Aldebaran is to be occulted by the moon on December 20th, at about 5 o'clock pm. Aldebaran is said to be eight hundred and eighty times the mass of the sun, with a diameter of over 8,000,000 miles; a distance so great that a meteor traveling at the rate of thirty miles per second, would require over three days to cross the disk of the star. Yet, notwithstanding the immense volume, the accultation will occur in a moment, so great is the distance of the star from us, and will continue for about one hour and eight minutes.
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