annular eclipse

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   only a thin outer disk of the sun can be seen

   Broadersolar eclipse

Questions about annular eclipse

What does annular eclipse mean?

annular eclipse means "only a thin outer disk of the sun can be seen".

Is annular eclipse a common word?

annular eclipse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.