total eclipse

noun

total eclipse

an eclipse as seen from a particular area of the earth's surface where the eclipsed body is completely hidden Compare annular eclipse partial eclipse

total eclipse

/ tōt′l /

First recorded in 1665–75

The period of total eclipse was quite a lengthy one, and during the time it lasted the darkness was intense.

A partial eclipse of the sun will always occur about a fortnight before or after a total eclipse of the moon.

Such an eclipse is called annular, as shown in fig. 3; when this happens, there can be no total eclipse anywhere.

On the 24th of June, the little fleet shot the Falls of the Ohio amid the darkness of a total eclipse of the sun.

Her honeymoon was not only waning, but going into a total eclipse.

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