full Moon

See also: full moon and fullmoon

English

Noun

full Moon (countable and uncountable, plural full Moons)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of full moon.
    • 2012, Nick Kanas, “Time and the calendar”, in Star Maps: History, Artistry, and Cartography (Springer-Praxis Books in Popular Astronomy), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Springer; Chichester, West Sussex: Praxis Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 3 (European cosmology), section 2 (European astronomy during the early Middle Ages), page 68:
      Historically, Easter was defined as occurring during the first Sunday after the first full Moon after the vernal equinox. However, several systems evolved because the events related to Easter as described in the Bible were not based on a specific calendar date but occurred with reference to the time of the Jewish-Passover and its associated full Moon.
    • 2017 November–December, Larry Niven, “By the Red Giant’s Light”, in C[harles] C[oleman] Finlay, editor, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 133, numbers 5 and 6 (734 overall), Hoboken, N.J.: Spilogale, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149:
      Dardry could remember when, seen though Pluto’s dusty blue sky, the Sun was a point not much brighter than the Earth’s full Moon.
    • 2022, Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Earth & Moon: Cosmic perspectives”, in Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization, New York, N.Y.: Holt Paperbacks, published 2024, →ISBN:
      The Moon also feeds our superstitions, believed by some to exert mysterious powers of influence on human behavior, especially during full Moon.
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