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Look up: Twilight

  1. Twilight
    For technical definition, please follow this link to the U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications website.
    Found on http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsfgloss

  2. Twilight
    Twilight is a faint illumination of the earth by sunlight reflected from the atmosphere after sunset and before sunrise.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/AB

  3. Twilight
    Twilight is a borough in Washington County Pennsylvania, USA.
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/GV

  4. twilight
    [n] - the time of day immediately following sunset 2. [n] - a condition of decline following successes 3. [n] - the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  5. Twilight
    By astronomical definition, the state of the sky when the Sun is below the horizon but by no more than 18 degrees.
    Found on http://www.delscope.demon.co.uk/astronom

  6. twilight
    faint light, growing in intensity before sunrise and decreasing after sunset, which originates from the light of the hidden Sun, close to the horizon, falling on the high atmospheric layers. Category: The cosmos
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  7. twilight
    1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18 deg below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth. ... 2. Faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. "As when the …
    Found on http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?t

  8. twilight
    dusk noun the time of day immediately following sunset; `he loved the twilight`; `they finished before the fall of night`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. twilight
    noun the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Twilight
    `Twilight` is the time before sunrise or after sunset when sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere and the surface of the Earth is between light and dark. Often confused with dusk, twilight is specifically defined as the period either side of night-time during which it is possible to conduct outdoor activities without the aid of artificial light. Due to the unusual, romantic quality of the ambient light at this...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight

  11. Twilight
    `Twilight` is the time before sunrise or after sunset when sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere and the surface of the Earth is between light and dark. Often confused with dusk, twilight is specifically defined as the period either side of night-time during which it is possible to conduct outdoor activities without the aid of artificial light. Due to the unusual, romantic quality of the ambient light at this...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight

  12. Twilight
    • (a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure. • (n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed. • (a.) Seen or done by twilight. • (n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. Twilight
    (from the article `Campbell, John W.`) ...pseudonym of `Don A. Stuart` (derived from his wife`s name, Dona Stuart). In these stories, technology was secondary to the development of ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/97

  14. twilight
    1. a state of diffused or dim illumination
    2. the time of day immediately following sunset
    3. the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth
    4. a condition of decline following successes

    Found on

  15. TWILIGHT
    Often called dusk, it is the evening period of waning light from the time of sunset to dark. The time of increasing light in the morning is called dawn. Twilight ends in the evening or begins in the morning at a specific time and can be categorized into three areas of decreasing light. Civil twilight is the time in the evening when car headlights n...
    Found on http://www.weather.com/glossary/t.html

  16. twilight
    The interval that follows sunset and comes before sunrise, during which the sky is partially illuminated by light from the Sun. Twilight lengthens with the distance of the observer from the equator, and is shortest as seen from anywhere on Earth at the equinoxes. Astronomical twilight is defined to ...
    Found on http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedi

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9 January 2009

This day in history:
In 1972 the Cunard ship the Queen Elizabeth started to burn and burned for 3 days. Queen Elizabeth was launched on September 27, 1938 and due to the war in Europe, her maiden voyage ended on 7 March 1940 with a surprise arrival in New York Harbor. During her war service she carried over 811,000 passengers and sailed over 500,000 miles. At 83,637 gross registered tons, she would be the largest passenger ship afloat for the next 34 years. read more

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