Sentence:  They deduced from their measurements that the radio emission from the <WSD>whole</WSD> disk of the moon varied during a lunation in a roughly sinusoidal fashion ; that the amplitude of the variation was considerably less than the amplitude of the variation in the infrared emission as measured by Pettit and Nicholson ( 1930 ) and Pettit ( 1935 ) ; and that the maximum of the radio emission came about 3 - 1 2 days after Full Moon , which is again in contrast to the infrared emission , which reaches its maximum at Full Moon . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete