inferior conjunction

1. 1.

   (astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun

   Broaderconjunction

   astronomy

Questions about inferior conjunction

What does inferior conjunction mean?

inferior conjunction means "(astronomy) the alignment of the Earth and a planet on the same side of the sun".

Is inferior conjunction a common word?

inferior conjunction 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.