{"id":45810,"date":"2026-09-19T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45810"},"modified":"2026-09-20T14:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:45:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-1145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/09\/19\/word-of-the-day-1145\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gibbous<\/em>:<\/p>\n

gibbous<\/strong>\u00a0(comparative<\/a><\/i>\u00a0more\u00a0gibbous<\/strong><\/b>,\u00a0superlative<\/a><\/i>\u00a0most\u00a0gibbous<\/strong><\/b>)<\/p>\n

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  1. Curved or\u00a0bulged<\/a>\u00a0outward.<\/li>\n
  2. (<\/span>astronomy<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0of a celestial body<\/span>)<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Having more than half (but not the whole) of its\u00a0disc<\/a>\u00a0illuminated<\/a>.\n
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    Coordinate term:\u00a0crescent<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Humpbacked<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Odd that I looked at gibbous<\/em> and didn’t know the definition; it’s always been one of those words that I’d look up later<\/em>. Noted in “A NEW CRATER ON THE MOON<\/em><\/a>,” Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    Now is a good time to look. The Moon is a [sic?] waxing gibbous in the evening sky and the crater stays lit until Sept. 27th. Don’t expect to resolve the crater, it’s quite small, but its fresh ejecta is the brightest thing for miles, so it registers as a high-contrast speck against the dark mare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    If mare<\/em> seems nonsensical in this context to my reader, here’s an explanation of lunar mare<\/a>, which is, briefly, a basaltic plain on the Moon formed by by lava flowing into an impact basin. And here’s an illustrative photo from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    You can check out the new crater by following the Spaceweather<\/strong><\/em> link, above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Gibbous: gibbous\u00a0(comparative\u00a0more\u00a0gibbous,\u00a0superlative\u00a0most\u00a0gibbous) Curved or\u00a0bulged\u00a0outward. (astronomy,\u00a0of a celestial body)\u00a0Having more than half (but not the whole) of its\u00a0disc\u00a0illuminated. Coordinate term:\u00a0crescent Humpbacked. [Wiktionary] Odd that I looked at gibbous and didn’t know the definition; it’s always been one of those words that I’d look up later. Noted in “A NEW CRATER ON \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45815,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810\/revisions\/45815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}