Half Moon - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: half moonHalf moon
The moon at the quarters when half its disk appears illuminated...
Lune
Anything in the shape of a half moon...
Lunulet
A small spot shaped like a half moon or crescent as the lunulet on the wings of many insects...
VerbarMedialuna
See Half moon...
Ravelin
A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place Formerly called demilune and half moon...
Semilunar
Shaped like a half moon...
blue moon
The second full moon occurring in the same month derived from the expression once in a blue moon as we had a blue moon on January 31 1999 and another in March...
Moon culminating
Culminating or coming to the meredian at or about the same time with the moon said of a star or stars esp of certain stars selected beforehand and named in an ephemeris as the Nautical Almanac as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination for determining terrestrial longitude...
Mooned
Of or resembling the moon symbolized by the moon...
Half life
the time it takes for one half of a substance decaying in a first order reaction to be destroyed For radioactive substances it is the time required for one half of the initial amount of the radioactive isotope to decay The half lifeis a measure of the rate of the reaction being observed For processes that are true first order processes such as radioactive decay the half life is independent of the quantity of material present and it is thus a constant The time it takes for one half the remaining quantity of a radioactive isotope to decay will be the same regardless of how far the decay process has advanced Some chemical reactions are also first order and may be characterized as having a half life However for chemical reactions the half life will depend upon temperature and in some cases other environmental conditions whereas for radioactive isotopes the rate of decay is largely independent of the environment...
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