three-quarter moon

noun

The phase where the moon is three-fourths of the way through its cycle from one new moon to the next.

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Meanings

nounthree-quarter moon (plural three-quarter moons)

plural three-quarter moons

  1. astronomyThe phase where the moon is three-fourths of the way through its cycle from one new moon to the next.

    The ten minutes of tropical twilight brought its quick melancholy and then the stars and the three-quarter moon blazed down and the sea died to a whisper.

    1954, Ian Fleming, “The Undertaker's Wind”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 185
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