Word
Syzygy
How many syllables?
3 Syllables
How it's divided?
syz-y-gy
Definition
- n. - The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which
it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
- n. - The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek
verse, an iambic syzygy.
- n. - Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of
two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on
the outer, though visible on the inner, side.
- n. - The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.
T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal
consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two
distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation,
//262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.
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