lunar

adjective

lu·nar | \ˈlü-nər also -ˌnär

Definition of lunar

1 : crescent, lunate who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns— Alexander Pope

2a : of, relating to, or resembling the moon lunar craters a lunar landscape

b : designed for use on the moon lunar vehicles

3 : measured by the moon's revolution lunar month

Examples of lunar in a Sentence

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The naval architect built a tiny vacation home that looks just like a lunar lander. — Liz Stinson, Curbed, "This tiny home was modeled after a lunar lander," 21 June 2018 Based in Pennsylvania, Astrotobic is developing a suite of robots to take payloads to the lunar surface, as well as rovers that can cross the Moon’s landscape. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "The Arch Foundation’s first step toward building a Lunar Library," 15 May 2018 Foster + Partners first unveiled designs for a lunar habitat module in 2012, in partnership with the European Space Agency. — NBC News, "Here's what future Mars and lunar space colonies could look like," 7 July 2018 Otherwise with Federatsiya stalled, Russian cosmonauts would depend on NASA to carry its crews to the near-lunar gateway and beyond. — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, "Russia's Soyuz Spacecraft Could Find New Life as a Lunar Taxi," 6 July 2018 The lunar calendar determines the dates Unlike most holidays, Passover and Easter aren’t anchored to specific dates. — Scott Craven, azcentral, "Why Easter and Passover are observed on different dates each year," 28 Mar. 2018 Likewise, July's solar eclipse kicks off a new lunar cycle on the Cancer-Capricorn axis that will last until January 2020. — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, "What July's Pisces Horoscope Means for You," 29 June 2018 The Islamic calendar is based on the lunar cycle, and the beginning of a new month is subject to moon sighting. — Sabeeha Rehman, WSJ, "How America Makes Ramadan Easier," 31 May 2018 The idea of sending to humans to the lunar surface somehow feels ho-hum today; even as the US is shifting its near-term goals from Mars to the Moon again. — Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica, "Trailer: 20th century’s greatest technical achievement goes Hollywood in First Man," 11 June 2018

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