total eclipse

noun

: an eclipse in which one celestial body is completely obscured by the shadow or body of another

Examples of total eclipse in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Here's how the 2026 total eclipse will compare Partial solar eclipse September 2025: Live updates 1 week until the 1st solar eclipse of 2025. —Jamie Carter, Space.com, 10 June 2025

Has March's partial total eclipse left you craving another solar spectacle? —Chris McMullen, Space.com, 9 May 2025

Even during the partial phases of a total eclipse, the remaining sliver of the sun's disk is still bright enough to overwhelm the faint corona. —Jamie Carter, Space.com, 22 Apr. 2025

Firefly's Blue Ghost spacecraft — which landed in the Sea of Crises on March 2 — took some spectacular images of a total solar eclipse (a total eclipse of the sun by Earth) as both a diamond ring and a glowing red ring of sunlight. —Jamie Carter, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1671, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for total eclipse

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