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Lunar day   /lˈunər deɪ/   Listen
Lunar day

noun
1.
The period of time taken for the moon to make one full rotation on its axis (about 27.3 sidereal days).





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"Lunar day" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the present section of the inquiry. It is hardly necessary to remark that the terms "first day of the month," "second day," "third day," etc., are to be understood as denoting "new-moon day," "day after new moon," "third lunar day," and so on; but it should be explained that, since these discharges occur at night, I have adopted the astronomical, instead of the civil, day; so that a new moon occurring between noon yesterday ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis


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