What is the entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc called?
ingress — (Astron.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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