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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The position of an inferior planet (Mercury or Venus) when it lies on a direct line between Earth and the sun and on the same side of the sun as Earth.
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- noun (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun
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