DICT.TW Dictionary Taiwan
18.221.128.65
Search for:
▼[Show options]
[Pronunciation] [Help] [Database Info] [Server Info]

2 definitions found

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 appulse
 半影月食; 合

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ap·pulse n.
 1. A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against.
    In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.   --Holder.
 2. Astron. The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.
 ◄ ►