User Contributed Dictionary
Pronunciation
IPA: /lu:n/Noun
lune (plural lunes)- (obsolete) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a
crazy or unreasonable freak.
- These dangerous, unsafe lunes i' the king. Shakespeare
Noun
lune- a concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a
sphere the intersection between two great semicircles
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- 1984: What he worried about was any eventual convexity, a shrinking, it might be, of the planet itself to some palpable curvature of whatever he would be standing on, so that he would be left sticking out like a projected radius, unsheltered and reeling across the empty lunes of his tiny sphere. — Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner
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- anything crescent-shaped
Usage notes
The corresponding convex shape is sometimes called a lune, but is, strictly, a lens.French
Etymology
Latin luna.Pronunciation
IPA: /lyn/Noun
lune f- the moon.
Italian
Noun
lune- Plural of luna
Extensive Definition
It may also refer to:
- River Lune in the United Kingdom
- Lhûn
or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
- Gulf of Lune, where the latter flowed
- Lune (mathematics)
- In real tennis, a lune is a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court
- Lune (album) an album from Fumiko Orikasa
- King Lune a fictional character in The Horse and His Boy in the The Chronicles of Narnia.
lune in Dutch: Lune