Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
occultation .
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- verb Present participle of
occult .
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Examples
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Though NASA states that you can't actually see the comet hit the Sun the impact is blocked out by the red occulting disk that allows the other structures in the Sun's corona to be seen the ensuing explosion gives a pretty good idea of what's going on.
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However, an occulting spot still leaves a bright halo of light in the image.
Archive 2008-12-11 Nicole 2008
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In order to see the corona, an occulting disk has to block out the Sun disk.
The Sun Bente Lilja Bye 2008
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The device they used (the the Advanced Camera for Surveys High Resolution Channel in its coronagraphic mode, for the curious) has two occulting spots that literally block the light from the parent star.
Archive 2008-12-11 Nicole 2008
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Images were tried with one, then the other, occulting spot covering the star.
Archive 2008-12-11 Nicole 2008
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This image consists thus of two images; one of the corona and an image of the sun taken approximately at the same time and then superimposed on the occulting disk.
The Sun Bente Lilja Bye 2008
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"These narrations are not easily described: I think of a lighthouse sweeping the sea with an occulting beam of obscurity and intervals of clarity ... of a train passing between me and what I'm looking at so that I see the rhythmically interrupted view through its windows."
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"These narrations are not easily described: I think of a lighthouse sweeping the sea with an occulting beam of obscurity and intervals of clarity ... of a train passing between me and what I'm looking at so that I see the rhythmically interrupted view through its windows."
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The soul collection bit was largely tedious and a foregone conclusion, though the button occulting the moon made for a decent countdown.
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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"These narrations are not easily described: I think of a lighthouse sweeping the sea with an occulting beam of obscurity and intervals of clarity ... of a train passing between me and what I'm looking at so that I see the rhythmically interrupted view through its windows."
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