Lunar most commonly means "of or relating to the
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon rotation, rotates, with a rotation period (lunar ...
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Lunar may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Lunar'' (series), a series of video games
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"Lunar" (song), by David Guetta
* "Lunar", a song by Priestess from the 2009 album ''
Prior to the Fire''
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Lunar Drive-in Theatre, in Dandenong, Victoria, Australia
* Lunars, a fictional race in the series ''
The Lunar Chronicles'' by Marissa Meyer
Other uses
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Lunar dynasty, a legendary house of warrior–rulers in ancient Indian texts
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Lunar Magic, Super Mario World level editor
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Lunar Design, or LUNAR, a San Francisco-based design consultancy
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Hasselblad Lunar, a digital camera
* Lunar, a brandname of
Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate
Ethinylestradiol/cyproterone acetate (EE/CPA), also known as co-cyprindiol and sold under the brand names Diane and Diane-35 among others, is a combination of ethinylestradiol (EE), an estrogen, and cyproterone acetate (CPA), a progestin and a ...
, a birth control pill
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Lunar C (Jake Brook, born 1990), English rapper
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LUNAR (software) (1970–1972), question-answering system by
Bill Woods (computer scientist)
William Aaron Woods (born June 17, 1942), generally known as Bill Woods, is a researcher in natural language processing, continuous speech understanding, knowledge representation, and knowledge-based search technology. He is currently a Software ...
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Lunar calendar
A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon's phases ( synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year, and lunisolar calendars, whose lunar months are br ...
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Lunar day
A lunar day is the time it takes for Earth's Moon to complete on its axis one synodic rotation, meaning with respect to the Sun. Informally, a lunar day and a lunar night is each approximately 14 Earth days. The formal lunar day is therefore t ...
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Lunar month
In lunar calendars, a lunar month is the time between two successive syzygies of the same type: new moons or full moons. The precise definition varies, especially for the beginning of the month.
Variations
In Shona, Middle Eastern, and Euro ...
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Moon (disambiguation)
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Luna (disambiguation)
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