Lune may refer to:

Rivers

River Lune The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England. Etymology Several elucidations for the origin of the name ''Lune'' exist. Firstly, it may be that the name is Brittonic languages, Brittonic ...

, in Lancashire and Cumbria, England * River Lune, Durham, in County Durham, England * Lune (Weser), a 43 km-long tributary of the Weser in Germany * Lune River (Tasmania), in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia

Place names

* Lune Aqueduct, east of the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England * Lune Forest, Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, England * Lune River, Tasmania, Australia, a town near the mouth of the river of the same name * Lüne, a former village near Lüneburg in Saxony where Charlemagne mustered his troops against the Avars

Mathematics

Lune (geometry) In plane geometry, a lune () is the concave-convex region bounded by two circular arcs. It has one boundary portion for which the connecting segment of any two nearby points moves outside the region and another boundary portion for which the ...

, a 2-dimensional arc-defined convex-concave area **

Lune of Hippocrates In geometry, the lune of Hippocrates, named after Hippocrates of Chios, is a lune bounded by arcs of two circles, the smaller of which has as its diameter a chord spanning a right angle on the larger circle. Equivalently, it is a non-convex pl ...

, in geometry, a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature *

Spherical lune In spherical geometry, a spherical lune (or biangle) is an area on a sphere bounded by two half great circles which meet at antipodal points. It is an example of a digon, θ, with dihedral angle θ. The word "lune" derives from ''Luna (goddess ...

, a 3-dimensional lune

People

* Ted Lune (1920–1968), British actor, played Private Len Bone in the TV series ''The Army Game'' * Dragutin Jovanović-Lune (1892–1932), nicknamed Lune (Луне), Serbian guerrilla fighter, officer, politician, delegate and mayor of Vrnjci

Films

* ''Moon'' (2020 film) (), a short film by Zoé Pelchat * ''Lune'' (2021 film), a 2021 feature film by Arturo Pérez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff

Ships

* French ship Lune (1641), 38-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy * PS Lune (1892), paddle steamer passenger vessel operated from 1892 to 1913

Fictional places and characters

* Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * Gulf of Lune, also from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * King Lune, a fictional character in ''The Horse and His Boy'' in ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' *Misha Arsellec Lune, a fictional character from '' Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia''

Other uses

* Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English * '' La Lune'', a former French newspaper * LuneOS, a Linux-based mobile operating system