💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Twilight zone"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| greylinenoun | (loosely) Synonym of twilight zone (“terminator”). |
| terminatornoun | (science fiction) An intelligent android created to destroy humans. |
| nightsidenoun | (astronomy) The side of a planet or other body that faces away from the sun or star around which it orbits. |
| astronomical twilightnoun | The period in which the sun is between 12° and 18° below the horizon in the morning and evening. |
| daysidenoun | (astronomy) The side of a planet or other body that faces towards the sun or star around which it orbits |
| darksidenoun | (countable, figuratively) The side of something that is metaphorically dark, i.e. evil, distressing or otherwise undesirable; the negative aspect of something. |
| lineanoun | (astronomy, geology) Any long marking, dark or bright, on a planet or moon's surface. |
| zodiacal lightnoun | (astronomy) A soft glow of white light seen in the sky along the ecliptic in an elongated triangular form with its base being on the horizon, particularly in the tropics. |
| limb darkeningnoun | (physics, astronomy) The optical effect where the edge of the disk of a star appears darker than the center of the disk. |
| joviclinenoun | (planetology, radio astronomy, astrometeorology) The separation between two different depth layers of the planet Jupiter, where the microwave emission characteristics of the bands (light stripes) and belts (dark stripes) are reversed. Bands have low levels of microwave emissions compared to belts at the surface, while below the jovicline, they have higher emissions comparatively. |
| zodiacal cloudnoun | (astronomy) A cloud of dust, lying in the plane of the ecliptic, that gives rise to the zodiacal light. |
| zenial passagenoun | Alternative form of zenithal passage. [The passing of the sun directly overhead such that no shadows are cast by a pole sticking straight up from the ground. These conditions only occur in locations between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.] |
| skylinenoun | The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky. |
| dividing linenoun | a line, often invisible, which marks the boundary between two areas. |
| light timenoun | (astronomy) The time taken for light to travel between two locations, especially celestial bodies. |
| zonanoun | (medicine) shingles. |
| shadowzonenoun | Alternative form of shadow zone. [(geology, seismology) An area of the Earth's surface where seismographs cannot detect direct P-waves or S-waves from an earthquake.] |
| crater of eternal darknessnoun | (space science) A crater or other depression, on a solid, non-luminous celestial body, the interior of which contains one or more points which lie in perpetual shadow due to a combination of high latitude and being on a celestial body with low axial tilt. |
| tachoclinenoun | (astronomy) A region of abrupt transition from rotation to convection in the interior of the sun. |
| separatrixnoun | (typography) The proofreader's mark resembling a slash ⟨ / ⟩ or vertical bar ⟨ | ⟩ placed after a note in the margin to indicate that it should replace the item(s) struckthrough in the running text or to separate it from other margin notes. |
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