Baily's beads (English, noun)
expansion: Baily's beads pl (plural only)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.
tags: plural
plural-only
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