What is the meaning of Syzygy?

  • (n.) The intimately united and apparently fused condition of certain low organisms during conjugation.
  • (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 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.) The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.
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